172,450 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.2% since 2020)
169 square miles of land · 1,023 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.
9 active community water systems list Kent County in the area they serve, reporting 180,219 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| KENT COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · RI1559511 | 94,107 served |
| WARWICK-CITY OF buys surface water · local government · RI1615627 | 73,289 served |
| CNE - NEW LONDON TURNPIKE ENTRY POINT buys groundwater · private · RI2980453 | 9,999 served |
| WARWICK-POTOWOMUT buys surface water · local government · RI1900051 | 2,163 served |
| CNE - HOPKINS HILL ROAD ENTRY POINT buys groundwater · private · RI2980452 | 317 served |
| PAIGE ASSOCIATES groundwater · private · RI1900020 | 120 served |
| ALPINE NURSING HOME groundwater · private · RI2519426 | 105 served |
| PINE ACRES ALR groundwater · private · RI2000004 | 75 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 $209.4 million — $193.9 million to run schools, about $24,225 per student, plus $5.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $137.8 million local (mostly property tax), $54 million state, $15.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $86.3 million.
Spent $93.3 million — $87.2 million to run schools, about $20,434 per student, plus $2.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $52.4 million local (mostly property tax), $30.3 million state, $9.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.1 million.
Spent $84.5 million — $75.8 million to run schools, about $21,598 per student, plus $4.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $33.8 million local (mostly property tax), $36.8 million state, $11.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.6 million.
Spent $52.1 million — $48.4 million to run schools, about $19,035 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $40 million local (mostly property tax), $8.5 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $35.5 million.
Spent $45.5 million — $35.6 million to run schools, about $22,940 per student, plus $7.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $29.1 million local (mostly property tax), $7.9 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $12.1 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Kent County about $32.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
115 bridges in Kent County: 24 in good condition, 72 fair, and 19 poor (16.5%). “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.
| I-95 NB & SB over JEFFERSON BLVD · built 1966 | 146,680 vehicles a day |
| I-295 NB over RI 2 BALD HILL RD · built 1967 | 49,300 vehicles a day |
| RI 37 EB over AMTRAK · built 1963 | 47,277 vehicles a day |
| RI 37 EB & WB over US 1 POST RD · built 1965 | 46,000 vehicles a day |
| RI 113 MAIN AV over AMTRAK · built 2006 | 34,118 vehicles a day |
| RI 113 EAST AV over I-295 NB & SB · built 1966 | 25,800 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $398.9 million of work in Kent County in fiscal 2025, about $2,341 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 Rhode Island 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: Providence County (13 mi) · Bristol County (15 mi) · Washington County (19 mi) · Newport County (19 mi) · Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT (23 mi) · Bristol County, MA (26 mi).