Municipal · Delaware

City of Dover

Dover is the capital and the second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware, after Wilmington. It is also the county seat of Kent County and the principal city of the Dover metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of the Philadelphia–Wilmington–Camden, PA–NJ–DE–MD, combined statistical area. It is located on the St. Jones River in the Delaware River coastal plain. It was named by William Penn for Dover in Kent, England. As of 2024, its population was estimated as 40,191.

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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 207645
FIPS state: 10
FIPS county: 001
FIPS place: 21200
Census record name: CITY OF DOVER
Mailing address: PO BOX 475, DOVER 19903