Dora is a very small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,255 people and two associated neighborhoods, Dora is the 197th largest community in Alabama.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Dora is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dora is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Dora who work in sales jobs (20.50%), maintenance occupations (13.87%), and office and administrative support (12.16%). It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Dora has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Dora has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dora than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dora may be for you. In Dora, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.70 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Dora is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In Dora, just 11.76% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Dora in 2022 was $27,659, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,636 for a family of four. However, Dora contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Dora is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dora home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dora residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dora include Irish, English, German, Northern European, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Dora is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Polish.
