Dover
Old-money suburb where the roads have no sidewalks by design and the Dover-Sherborn Regional School District has a national reputation. Horse farms and conservation land sit alongside homes that rarely appear on the open market.
The numbers
How Dover scores
Who lives in Dover
U.S. Census ACS 2018–2022 estimates. Rounded.
Schools in Dover
Dover School District. Massachusetts DESE FY2024 (FY2025 graduation rates).
Source: Massachusetts DESE Education-to-Career Research and Data Hub. Percentile ranks against 194 MA towns in our index.
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