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Dover, DE Metro Area

The Dover, DE metro area is one county in Delaware: Kent County. About 194,786 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 7.1% more than in April 2020.

Kent County, centralDover
Kent County in Delaware
Population, July 2025
194,786 7.1% more than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
County
Kent County
Land area
586 sq mi (1,518 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
State
Delaware
Combined statistical area
Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD
CBSA code
20100
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The county in the Dover, DE metro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Kent CountyCentral194,786

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Dover39,837 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 4 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area6,329,118 people
  2. Reading, PA Metro Area440,072 people
  3. Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area372,047 people
  4. Vineland, NJ Metro Area157,148 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Vineland, NJ Metro Area35 mi northeast
  2. Seaford, DE Micro Area35 mi south
  3. Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area59 mi east
  4. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area62 mi north

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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