Dunkirk is a somewhat small city located in the state of New York. With a population of 12,563 people and five associated neighborhoods, Dunkirk is the 153rd largest community in New York. Dunkirk has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.Dunkirk is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Dunkirk is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dunkirk who work in office and administrative support (8.03%), healthcare (7.51%), and teaching (7.04%). One of the benefits of Dunkirk is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.01 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Being a small city, Dunkirk does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Dunkirk are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.88% of adults in Dunkirk have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Dunkirk in 2022 was $27,775, which is low income relative to New York, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,100 for a family of four. However, Dunkirk contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Dunkirk is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dunkirk home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dunkirk residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Dunkirk also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.59% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dunkirk include Polish, German, Irish, Italian, and English. The most common language spoken in Dunkirk is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
