Kent County
Kent County, named after Kent County of southeast England, is located in the northern part of the Eastern Shore and is primarily rural. Sixty-eight percent of the county’s 179,480 acres is zoned for agriculture. As of 2000, there were 5,972 acres of publicly owned open space and another 17,150 acres are in some form of permanent preservation.
The population of Kent County has changed very little in the past 100 years, and is projected to increase slightly from its 2000 population of 19,197 to 20,300 in 2010. The largest threat to the county’s quality of life is the massive growth of neighboring southern Newcastle County, Delaware.
1000 Friends of Maryland released barometers to address the difficult question of whether counties are on track to clean local waters as local, state, and federal governments finalize their plans to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay “pollution diet.” How is Kent County doing?
Reports
07/27/2009
Yellow School Bus Blues documents one hidden cost of Maryland’s recent development patterns. The report examines the rapidly increasing school bus budget. Since 1992 statewide expenditures for school bus transportation have more than doubled, to $438 million.
