The City of Duncanville received its designation as a Texas Certified Retirement Community by the Texas Department of Agriculture on March 15, 2007.
Geography & Climate
Duncanville is located in the southwest corner of Dallas County and approximately 15 miles south of downtown Dallas, just off Interstate 20. Located less than five minutes to Interstate 35, Duncanville is approximately 100 miles south of the Texas/Oklahoma border and approximately 200 miles north of Austin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 29.2 km² (11.3 mi²) of land. The elevation is approximately 700 feet above sea level.
Classified as having a humid subtropical climate, and have a wide annual temperature range. Precipitation is also widely variant, ranging anywhere from 20 inches to 50 inches per year (averaging around 36 inches). Winters are usually mild with the average annual snowfall being 2.5 inches.