Kent County

Also known as Kent County, Delaware, Kent County, DE

county in Delaware, United States

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Kent County is a county located in Delaware in the United States. It is one of Delaware's three counties and contains the state capital of Dover.

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Population: 181851
Area: 2072
Official website: www.kentcountyde.gov
Image: Kent County Courthouse Dover.jpg
Households: 67299

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water as percent of area: 26.6
Commons category: Kent County, Delaware
inception: 1683-01-01
native label: Kent County
per capita income: 28911
NCI Thesaurus ID: C108004

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Kent County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of the 2020 census, the population was 181,851, making it the least populous county in Delaware, but the most populous county in the United States to be the least populous in its state. The county seat is Dover, the state capital of Delaware. It is named for Kent, an English county.

Kent County comprises the Dover metropolitan area, which is included in the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area.