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Kent County, Delaware

46,998 Black residents · 25.8% of the county · ranked 2 of 3 in Delaware by Black population

Kent County is a Delaware county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Kent County held 181,851 residents in all, of whom 46,998 — 25.8% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Delaware highlighted — the state in the national tile map, shaded by the Black share of each state's population. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census (PL 94-171), Table P1.

Civic Snapshot

MeasureFigure
Total population, 2020181,851
Black residents (alone), 202046,998
Black share of the county, 202025.8%
Rank by Black population among Delaware counties2 of 3

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.

Population Trend

The two-census record for Kent County: 38,913 Black residents in 2010 and 46,998 in 2020. The population grew by 20.8%, and the Black share in Kent County moved from 24.0% to 25.8%.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.

The Record

Kent County is one of 3 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Delaware. Together they hold the state's 218,899 Black residents, and Kent County's 46,998 of them give it rank 2 of 3 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Kent County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Kent County, Delaware, are recorded in this gazetteer through its place entries — the towns and communities inside the county's borders, each entered on its own published count. Read with those entries, the Kent County page gives the frame they stand in: 181,851 residents in all, 46,998 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.