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.

Doraville was incorporated by an accomplishment of the Georgia General Assembly, approved December 15, 1871. From its expand until the 1940s, Doraville was a little agricultural community that served the interests of a larger surrounding gardening area.

At the stop of World War II, Doraville was on a main railroad parentage and had a other water system. General Motors prearranged Doraville for a additional assembly plant. Doraville grew in the late 1940s and the 1950s as a result. In the late 1940s, plans for Guilford Village, the first subdivision, were announced by Southern Builders and Engineering Company. The 112-home subdivision at Tilly Mill and Flowers Roads was to cover some 58 acres. In 1950, Doraville’s population was 472. By 1964, its population was 6,160 and its land area was 1,722 acres. Part of the population accrual during that era was because of the annexation of Northwoods in 1949 and Oakcliff in 1958.

By the 1980s, Doraville and adjoining Chamblee attracted immigrants relocating to the Atlanta area who granted along Buford Highway. The consequences is one of the largest Asian communities in the country. Many Latin American countries are as well as represented. 56% of residents talk a language extra than English as a first language. The Doraville MARTA Station was built in 1992, destroying the few buildings that remained of Doraville’s downtown. The GM Doraville Assembly Plant closed in 2009 and was demolished in 2015.