Moving to Duncan: Pros, Cons & What to Know
Moving to Duncan means joining a real, distinct southwest Oklahoma city defined by a genuine, disclosed oilfield-services heritage carried into the present.
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Erle P. Halliburton founded his oil-well-cementing business in Duncan in 1919. Though the company's corporate headquarters relocated to Dallas in 1961, Halliburton's real, current, large-scale Duncan manufacturing facility remains the city's economic mainstay today.
Genuinely affordable housing, with a real price volatility
Duncan's average home value ran $135,002 (Zillow, down ~0.2% YoY), though this record discloses a real, disclosed divergence: Redfin's own median sale price ran sharply higher, up ~34.7% YoY to $179,000 last month.
A real, honestly-disclosed crime-data discrepancy
Duncan's crime-rate figures carried a real, disclosed, unresolved discrepancy across sources this pass -- a genuine uncertainty this record does not smooth over.
Key takeaways
- Duncan's real, distinctive Halliburton-founding heritage (1919) continues today through a large-scale manufacturing facility, though corporate HQ moved to Dallas in 1961.
- Housing runs genuinely affordable, though price figures carried a real, wide and volatile disclosed spread this pass.
- Duncan's crime-rate data carried a real, disclosed cross-source discrepancy this record discloses honestly.
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