About Dover

Dover is a somewhat small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 5,558 people and just one neighborhood, Dover is the 242nd largest community in Massachusetts.

Dover is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 94.34% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Dover is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dover who work in management occupations (22.28%), sales jobs (15.91%), and business and financial occupations (9.59%).

Also of interest is that Dover has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Dover telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.39% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

In addition, Dover is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Dover is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Dover really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Dover perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Dover is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Dover, the average commute to work is 32.48 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Dover does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Dover Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Dover. 77.80% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Dover in 2000 was $64,899, which is wealthy relative to Massachusetts and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $259,596 for a family of four. However, Dover contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dover home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Dover is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Dover include Irish, English, Italian, German, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Dover is English.