192,690 people (2024 Census estimate, +5.7% since 2020)
586 square miles of land · 329 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
62 active community water systems list Kent County in the area they serve, reporting 148,181 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| DOVER WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · DE0000571 | 39,491 served |
| CAMDEN PUMP DISTRICT groundwater · local government · DE0000124 | 17,208 served |
| GARRISON LAKE PUMP DISTRICT groundwater · private · DE0000004 | 17,148 served |
| SMYRNA WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · DE0000657 | 11,813 served |
| DOVER AIR FORCE BASE groundwater · federal · DE0000579 | 11,000 served |
| MILFORD WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · DE0000616 | 9,800 served |
| CHURCH CREEK (AWC) groundwater · private · DE00A0428 | 9,654 served |
| ARTESIAN NORTHERN KENT REGIONAL groundwater · private · DE00A0673 | 7,014 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
No county jail figure in the national data for Kent County — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
5 school districts have their office in Kent County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $171.5 million — $151.2 million to run schools, about $18,253 per student, plus $14.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $23 million local (mostly property tax), $101.2 million state, $28 million federal. Long-term debt: $25 million.
Spent $182.7 million — $168.2 million to run schools, about $26,301 per student, plus $8.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $34.5 million local (mostly property tax), $85.8 million state, $25.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $121.6 million.
Spent $105.8 million — $97.6 million to run schools, about $16,084 per student, plus $5.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $20.2 million local (mostly property tax), $71.9 million state, $9.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $33.1 million.
Spent $61.2 million — $59 million to run schools, about $16,347 per student, plus $704,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.8 million local (mostly property tax), $43.3 million state, $9.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $10.8 million.
Spent $31 million — $23.9 million to run schools, about $19,904 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.7 million local (mostly property tax), $17.6 million state, $2.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.9 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Kent County about $55.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
192 bridges in Kent County: 106 in good condition, 84 fair, and 2 poor (1.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| LEBANON RD/SR10 WB over ST. JONES RIVER · built 1965 | 8,726 vehicles a day |
| MAPLE AVE over MISPILLION RIVER · built 1977 | 99 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $277.6 million of work in Kent County in fiscal 2025, about $1,526 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Delaware are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Kent County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Kent County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Caroline County, MD (23 mi) · Cumberland County, NJ (26 mi) · Sussex County (31 mi) · Queen Anne's County, MD (31 mi) · Salem County, NJ (34 mi) · New Castle County (34 mi).