The population of Kent county is estimated at 163,690. In 2017 there were 1,634 births and 1,709 deaths in Kent county. Kent county has 36,876 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 12,170 that are owned free and clear and 19,599 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Kent County filed 88,410 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 16.7% of all Rhode Island filings and 0.059% of the entire nation. Kent had a combined total federal tax liability of $995,775,000 on earned income of $6,114,706,000. Other notable statistics from Kent County were 6,200 unemployment claims which collected a total of $27,495,000 and 28,370 charitable contributions valued at $79,097,000. 31,960 filings from Kent County paid a combined total of $175,530,000 in property taxes and 28,100 filings paid $198,337,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Kent county had 86 religious congregations with an estimated 95,151 members.
32.1% of the Kent population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Kent County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 2,444 votes.
At $72,765 the median income is 115.6% of the Rhode Island average. An estimated 3,723 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Kent, the equivalant of around 4.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Kent County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
11,802	Health care and social assistance
11,126	Retail trade
8,013	Accommodation and food services
7,609	Manufacturing
7,197	Food services and drinking places
6,435	Restaurants and other eating places
5,011	Finance and insurance
4,610	Ambulatory health care services
4,048	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,951	Administrative and support services
3,619	Full-service restaurants
3,222	Transportation and warehousing
3,121	Nursing and residential care facilities
3,012	Insurance carriers and related activities
2,948	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.13% in Kent County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 2889, 2816, 2818, 2886 and 2893).

In 2018 17.28% of listings in Kent County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 2893, 2818, 2888, 2886 and 2889) dropped their price.

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