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.Dora is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-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. One downside of living in Dora is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Dora, the average commute to work is 30.70 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small city, Dora does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Dora is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.76% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. 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.
