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Dover Base Housing, Delaware.

A community in Kent County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Kent County’s.

Living in Dover Base Housing, Kent County, Delaware

Dover Base Housing, in Kent County, had 2,810 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $82,161 a year and half less, against $74,477 across Kent County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 0% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 100% are rented. Unemployment in Kent County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.

People 2,810 in the 2020 census; median age 26.2
Household income $82,161 the median, give or take $13,477 · Kent County: $74,477
Unemployment 5.5% Kent County, August 2026; 6.2% a year before
Homes 0% lived in by their owners; 100% rented
  • 1,113households
  • 2%below the poverty line
  • 12 mintypical commute
  • 6%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care26%
  • Building trades15%
  • Professional and business services12%
  • Government12%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Manufacturing9%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kent County had 70,905 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 44° and 28°; warmest in July, 87° and 69° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 44° 28° F M A M J J 87° 69° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 44° and 28°; warmest in July, 87° and 69° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 44° 28° F M A M J J 87° 69° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 13 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dover weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Kent County

  1. Bayhealth Hospital Kent CampusGeneral hospital1,745FTE
  2. Delaware Technical Community College-TerryUniversity or college1,602
  3. Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,444
  4. Caesar Rodney School DistrictSchool district1,121FTE
  5. Delaware State UniversityUniversity or college1,029
  6. Capital School DistrictSchool district834FTE
  7. WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage829
  8. Smyrna School DistrictSchool district696FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 113 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,531 people in all across the county; Dover Base Housing has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. Cold wavesRelatively moderate
  2. Winter weatherRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dover Base Housing’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Kent County.