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Welcome to the Dothan Home page. The Dothan Home page provides as much information as possible on Dothan. Knowing Dothan’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Dothan’s Home page, you will also find Dothan’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Dothan has a population of 69586. 47.8% of Dothan’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.2 are female. 44.3% of Dothan is married and 59.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $150,680, and the average rent is $767. Household median income in Dothan is $48,377, and the individual median income is $27,145. Dothan’s Ethnic is the following: White(60.3%), Black(34.7%), Hispanic(3.4%), Multiple(2.4%), Asian(1.4%), Other(0.9%), Native(0.3%).


Dothan ( DOH-thən) is a city in Dale, Henry, and Houston counties and the Houston county seat in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is Alabama's eighth-largest city, with a population of 71,072 at the 2020 census. It is near the state's southeastern corner, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Georgia and 16 miles (26 km) north of Florida.


It is named after the biblical city where Joseph's brothers threw him into a cistern and sold him into slavery in Egypt.Dothan is the principal city of the Dothan, Alabama metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Geneva, Henry, and Houston counties; the small portion in Dale County is part of the Ozark Micropolitan Statistical Area.


Together they form the Dothan-Ozark Combined Statistical Area. Coffee County and its Enterprise micropolitan area was originally combined as a statistical area with both Dothan and Ozark as well, but is now split off as its own statistical area by the US Census Bureau. Together they form the Wiregrass region, of which Dothan is the Alabama portion's largest city.


The combined population of the entire Dothan metropolitan area in 2010 was 145,639. The city is the main transportation and commercial hub for a significant part of southeastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and nearby portions of the Florida Panhandle. Since approximately one-fourth of the U.S. peanut crop is produced nearby, much of it processed in the city, Dothan is known as "The Peanut Capital of the World".


It also hosts the annual National Peanut Festival at the Peanut Festival Fairgrounds.


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