Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Doraville grades D overall, 187th of 258 graded towns in Georgia, mostly because of safety and schools. It reports more crime per resident than 96% of U.S. towns, including 56 violent crimes reported to the FBI in 2025. Its schools rank behind 83% of the state's. In its favor, natural-hazard risk is low. Doraville’s property crime rate is 40.6 per 1,000 residents, where Georgia’s towns sit at 14.5 and U.S. towns at 9.9. Only 19 of Georgia’s 371 towns score higher on walkability. Doraville's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 95% of U.S. towns.
Where Doraville beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
8,330 counted in 2010 and 10,623 in 2020; an estimated 16,365 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 11.9% since 2020, after 27.5% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Doraville is from typical.
Its grades run from A for hazard risk (better than 95% of comparable towns) to D− for safety (better than 4%), so the D overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 103 in 1880, 10,623 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1940 and 5 maps from 1954 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Doraville. Close and well known come first.
Big draw13 mi Stadium & arenaMercedes-Benz Stadium
Big draw10 mi MountainStone Mountain
Big draw13 mi Stadium & arenaState Farm Arena
11 mi Stadium & arenaTruist Park
12 mi Zoo & aquariumGeorgia Aquarium
Big draw19 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over GeorgiaMercedes-Benz Stadium: Atlanta Falcons, CC BY 3.0 · Stone Mountain: KyleAndMelissa22, Public domain · State Farm Arena: Hermann Luyken, CC0 · Truist Park: Thechased at English Wikipedia, CC BY 4.0 · Georgia Aquarium: Diliff, CC BY 2.5 · Six Flags Over Georgia: hagerman, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Doraville, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Doraville.
Doraville draws workers from Atlanta and beyond, is healthier than towns with similar incomes and has hotter summers than most of the country, though not than most of Georgia.
Property crime runs at 40.6 per 1,000 residents, 3 times the Georgia rate, most of it theft. Reported crimes fell from 615 to 582 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
Doraville’s violent crime rate is 4.3 per 1,000 residents. Doraville reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 96% report less.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Its public schools are run by the DeKalb County school district. Two of its 6 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Tapestry Public Charter School, with 300 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sequoyah Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 1,713 | D |
| Tapestry Public Charter SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 6–12 | Grades 6–12 | 300 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within GA on state tests and graduation
11,852 jobs are based in Doraville, 3.5 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in.
Most working residents leave Doraville for work: only 5% work in town. 18% of Doraville residents live below the poverty line. Jobs based in Doraville grew to 11,852 in 2023, 1,980 more than in 2013.
| Doraville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 18% | 15% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 5.4% | 9.2% | 8% |
| Median household income | $67,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 92% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 8 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Doraville.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
July afternoons average 88.8°: hotter than most of the country, but cooler than 87% of Georgia places with climate records; January nights average 32.8°.
Doraville has mild winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The January low in Doraville is 33°F. About 2 inches of snow falls in a winter.
| Doraville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 33°F | 33°F | 22°F |
| July high | 89°F | 90°F | 85°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Its typical home is the least expensive on its borders; Chamblee is next at $472K. 72.5% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 52.4% across Georgia.
The typical Doraville home is worth about $360,000, about the same as a year ago, 9% above the Georgia typical home. 58% of households own their home in Doraville.
| Doraville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,868 a month | $1,152 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 58% | 58% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Georgia average. Doraville has grown 12% since 2020, to 16,365 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 36% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 35% across Georgia.
| Doraville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 12% | 15% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 25% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 26% | 24% | 22% |
| Median age | 35.1 years | 36.6 years | 40.5 years |
47% women, 53% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.9 points. Across Georgia, 51.2% of residents are women. Among residents 65 to 74, 67% are men (GA 46%).
| Doraville | GA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 14.8% | 12.1% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11.1% | 11.1% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.8% | 9.5% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 16.2% | 13.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14.3% | 13.4% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.1% | 12.8% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.1% | 12.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 8.7% | 9.1% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 2.9% | 5.8% | 7% |
| No diploma | 26.8% | 10.8% | 10.4% |
| High school | 25.4% | 26.6% | 26% |
| Some college | 7.3% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 5% | 8.4% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 22% | 21.1% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 13.6% | 13.9% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Against the 10,239 U.S. towns with household incomes like Doraville’s, it is healthier than 69%, so its B− isn’t only a matter of income.
Doraville beats the Georgia average on 9 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 12. Among 261 Georgia towns, just 5 have a lower share of adults who had a checkup this year than Doraville.
| Doraville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 14% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 79% | 79% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 20% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 38% | 33% |
| What stands out | Doraville | GA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.2% | 7% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 16.3% | 24.6% |
| More uninsured adults | 25.6% | 13.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Doraville | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.6% | 2.3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Brook Park | — | 8 |
| 2. Bernard Halpern Park | — | 4 |
| 3. English Oak Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
25 within 15 miles of the center of Doraville
About 4 of every 100 Doraville residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Georgia.
Where Doraville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
City in Georgia, United States
Doraville is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States northeast of Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,623.
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3 towns share a border with Doraville.
| Town | GA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doraville | #187 | D | C− | D− | C− | B− |
| Dunwoody | #108 | C+ | D | C− | C− | A+ |
| Peachtree Corners | #33 | B+ | D | — | B+ | A− |
| Chamblee | #189 | D | D | D | C− | B |
Peachtree Corners reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Doraville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Doraville grades D overall, better than 13% of U.S. towns and #187 of 258 in Georgia. It grades B− for health, D− for safety and C− for schools. Safety is its weak spot, with a D−.
Yes. That is 4 years of the area's median household income ($89,724 across the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
