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Wally Nunn: Delaware County Council encourages economic apartheid Wally Nunn December 3, 2025 December 2, 2025

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Upper Darby and Radnor sit just a few miles apart in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. One is working-class. The other is one of the wealthiest communities in America. Yet the family in Upper Darby pays roughly twice the effective property-tax rate of their neighbor in Radnor — despite earning less than half as much.

That single fact exposes the quiet cruelty baked into how Pennsylvania funds schools and local government.

Here’s the math:

Median household income in Upper Darby: ~$69,000

Median household income in Radnor: ~$159,000

Combined (county + municipal + school) millage rate for 20

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