Dover is a medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 26,884 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Dover is the seventh largest community in New Hampshire.

Dover is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Dover is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dover who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.15%), sales jobs (13.18%), and management occupations (9.64%).

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.

The city is also nautical, which means that parts of Dover are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Dover Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Dover is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.43% of adults in Dover have a college degree.

The per capita income in Dover in 2000 was $23,459, which is middle income relative to New Hampshire, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,836 for a family of four.

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, French, French Canadian, Italian, German, Scottish, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Dover is English. Some people also speak French.