19,557 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.3% since 2020)
277 square miles of land · 71 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.
11 active community water systems list Kent County in the area they serve, reporting 11,395 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TOWN OF CHESTERTOWN groundwater · local government · MD0140002 | 5,400 served |
| TOWN OF ROCK HALL groundwater · local government · MD0140006 | 1,750 served |
| WORTON groundwater · local government · MD0140007 | 955 served |
| FAIRLEE groundwater · local government · MD0140003 | 725 served |
| TOWN OF MILLINGTON groundwater · local government · MD0140010 | 630 served |
| TOWN OF GALENA groundwater · local government · MD0140004 | 560 served |
| TOWN OF BETTERTON groundwater · local government · MD0140001 | 481 served |
| KENNEDYVILLE groundwater · local government · MD0140005 | 300 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.
About 40 people were held in Kent County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 351 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 57.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Kent County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $46.5 million — $38.9 million to run schools, about $22,237 per student, plus $7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $23.1 million local (mostly property tax), $15.8 million state, $7.6 million federal.
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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Kent County about $8.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
44 bridges in Kent County: 5 in good condition, 37 fair, and 2 poor (4.5%). “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.
| MORGNEC ROAD over TRIB TO CHESTER RIVER · built 1928 | 265 vehicles a day |
| LAMBSON FOREST ROA over MILLS BRANCH · built 1975 | 265 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.9 million of work in Kent County in fiscal 2025, about $410 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 Maryland 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: Queen Anne's County (14 mi) · Harford County (22 mi) · Cecil County (24 mi) · Baltimore city (26 mi) · Anne Arundel County (29 mi) · Baltimore County (30 mi).