Doraville is a somewhat small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 10,135 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Doraville is the 95th largest community in Georgia.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Doraville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.4% of the Doraville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Doraville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Doraville who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.48%), building maintenance and grounds keeping (11.96%), and sales jobs (9.44%).

For a small city, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Doraville. This is not typical for most smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Doraville.

In Doraville, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day even though Doraville is a relatively small city. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.

Doraville Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Doraville rank slightly lower than the national average. 12.80% of adults 25 and older in Doraville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 14.96% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Doraville in 2000 was $15,048, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $60,192 for a family of four.

Doraville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Doraville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Doraville is White, followed by African-American. Doraville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 44.94% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Doraville include English, German, and Irish.

Doraville also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 46.62%.

The languages spoken by people in Doraville are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Doraville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese.