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Welcome to the DuBois Home page. The DuBois Home page provides as much information as possible on DuBois. Knowing DuBois’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within DuBois’s Home page, you will also find DuBois’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

DuBois has a population of 7413. 48.9% of DuBois’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.1 are female. 36.5% of DuBois is married and 54.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $99,715, and the average rent is $764. Household median income in DuBois is $45,602, and the individual median income is $26,476. DuBois’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.9%), Multiple(0.9%), Black(0.7%), Hispanic(0.6%), Asian(0.3%), Native(0.2%).


Settled in 1812 and platted in 1872, DuBois was incorporated as a borough in 1881 and as a city in 1914. The town was founded by John Rumbarger, for whom the town was originally named. The Rumbarger Cemetery is all that survives of John Rumbarger's "original settlement" in the city of DuBois. The town was later renamed for local lumber magnate John DuBois, who came from a longstanding American family of French Huguenot descent.


Many of the town's original buildings and homes were funded and or donated by Mr. DuBois's lumber mill. In 1938, his nephew, John E. DuBois, donated the family mansion and estate as a permanent home for the DuBois Campus of Penn State University. While DuBois was founded as a lumber town, the mining of bituminous coal quickly became the chief industry in DuBois. Over the years there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts in 1989, 1995, and 2002 to combine the city with the surrounding Sandy Township, but in 2021 voters in both municipalities successfully voted to consolidate into a new third class city, anticipated to take effect between 2024 and 2026.


Combined, the population of DuBois and Sandy Township is approximately 18,000 people. The Commercial Hotel, since demolished, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and the DuBois Historic District was listed in 1997.


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