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Duncan, AZ

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Overview


Duncan is a tiny town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 668 people and just one neighborhood, Duncan is the 157th largest community in Arizona.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Duncan isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Duncan are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Duncan is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Duncan who work in teaching (28.57%), management occupations (14.29%), and sales jobs (10.95%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Duncan is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

One downside of living in Duncan, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.12 minutes every day commuting to work.

Duncan is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Duncan rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.60% of adults 25 and older in Duncan have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Duncan in 2018 was $19,804, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $79,216 for a family of four. However, Duncan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Duncan also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.58% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Duncan is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Duncan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Duncan residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Duncan also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.65% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Duncan include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Duncan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.1% of America.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Duncan are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 41.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 34.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.3%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Duncan, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (35.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report German roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (15.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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