Kent County is the least wealthy county in Delaware. Dover is the largest city located within Kent County.
  The population of Kent county is estimated at 174,754. In 2017 there were 2,172 births and 1,667 deaths in Kent county. Kent county has 30,880 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,166 that are owned free and clear and 17,232 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Kent County filed 80,670 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 17.7% of all Delaware filings and 0.054% of the entire nation. Kent had a combined total federal tax liability of $573,458,000 on earned income of $4,146,062,000. Other notable statistics from Kent County were 3,160 unemployment claims which collected a total of $11,033,000 and 16,090 charitable contributions valued at $64,602,000. 18,650 filings from Kent County paid a combined total of $35,488,000 in property taxes and 17,700 filings paid $145,693,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Kent county had 158 religious congregations with an estimated 52,665 members.
23.5% of the Kent population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 42% of Kent County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 5,584 votes.
At $57,112 the median income is 89.1% of the Delaware average. An estimated 3,886 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Kent, the equivalant of around 5.0% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.9%.

Top 15 Industries in Kent County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,405	Health care and social assistance
8,856	Retail trade
6,183	Accommodation and food services
4,797	Manufacturing
4,125	Food services and drinking places
3,793	Transportation and warehousing
3,778	Restaurants and other eating places
3,351	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,214	Administrative and support services
2,558	Ambulatory health care services
2,101	Truck transportation
2,058	Accommodation
2,058	Traveler accommodation
2,005	General freight trucking
1,991	General freight trucking, long-distance

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.03% in Kent County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 19943, 19946, 19934, 19904 and 19901).

In 2018 12.97% of listings in Kent County (averaging across 9 zip codes a sample of which are; 19962, 19938, 19934, 19977 and 19952) dropped their price.

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