Dover is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 3,266 people and three associated neighborhoods, Dover is the 327th largest community in Florida.Dover is a blue-collar town, with 44.08% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dover is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dover who work in sales jobs (16.77%), farm management occupations (16.38%), and food service (14.92%). Another important characteristic of Dover is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.15% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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 Dover, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.10 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly 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.In Dover, just 6.19% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Dover in 2022 was $22,645, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,580 for a family of four. However, Dover contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Dover also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.54% of its population below the federal poverty line.Dover is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dover home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Dover, accounting for 58.79% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Dover residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dover include Irish, German, Italian, English, and European. Dover also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 23.25%. The most common language spoken in Dover is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
