Source - U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates ('24).
McAdoo was incorporated as a borough in 1896. The settlement was earlier called Pleasant Hill and was renamed McAdoo in 1895 when its post office opened. The namesake is uncertain, with sources pointing to one of two public officials named McAdoo. The 2020 population was 2,471.
The borough sits on the crest of Broad Mountain at roughly 1,700 feet, about five miles south of Hazleton in the northern tip of Schuylkill County.
McAdoo grew on anthracite mining and later on garment and shirt factories. Its families are heavily of Polish, Italian, and Slovak descent, a legacy of the coal-era immigration that filled the town.
Housing is dense and affordable, built to coal-town patterns of rowhomes and frame houses on tight lots. It offers some of the lowest prices in the greater Hazleton market, a short drive from the city's jobs.
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