It is located on Wangaratta-Whitfield Road along the King River.

[1] In 1838, the Docker family settled in nearby Bontharambo Plains.

[4] The formally recognised traditional owners for the southern area in which Docker sits are the Taungurung people.

Nobody in Docker identified themselves as being Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people in the 2016 census.

The most common ancestries in Docker were English 31.6%, Australian 27.1%, Scottish 11.6%, Irish 11.0% and Italian 7.1%.