A law of 1978[4] established 27 full-service municipalities in the territory of the country.

The lingua franca, spoken and understood by the majority of the population, is Dioula, but the vernacular of the region is Baoulé.

The city has two football clubs, the RFC Daoukro, finalist of the Cup of Cote d'Ivoire football in 2002, and AS Daoukro, which competes in the Division Regional Championship, the equivalent of a fourth-tier division[7] Both teams play their home games at Daoukro Municipal Stadium.

As in most cities, it is organized, informally, tournament football players to seven, very popular in Ivory Coast, are called Maracanas.

In 2008, Daoukro was a city-stage of the Tour of White Gold: the stage was won by the Ivorian rider Balima Mahamadi.