Harrington, Delaware Harrington, Delaware Location in Kent County and the state of Delaware.
Location in Kent County and the state of Delaware.
Harrington is positioned in Delaware Harrington - Harrington Location inside the state of Delaware State Delaware Harrington is a town/city in Kent County, Delaware, United States.
It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Harrington hosts the annual Delaware State Fair each July.
Harrington, a former chancellor of the state. The town advanced at a barns junction along the Delaware Railroad and served as a non-urban trading center. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2), of which, 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (1.48%) is water.
There were 1,223 homeholds out of which 37.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.9% were married couples living together, 18.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 32.5% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 31.3% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $30,945, and the median income for a family was $36,815.
About 12.1% of families and 16.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 26.7% of those under age 18 and 13.3% of those age 65 or over.
Route 13 (Dupont Highway) serves as the chief north-south road in Harrington, heading north toward Dover and south toward Salisbury, Maryland.
Delaware Route 14 serves as the chief east-west road in Harrington, heading west toward Denton, Maryland and east toward Milford. DART First State provides bus service to Harrington along Route 117, which heads north toward Camden and joins to the small-town bus routes serving the Dover area. Harrington is positioned at a barns junction along the Delmarva Central Railroad between the north-south line between Porter, Delaware and Pocomoke City, Maryland and a branch line heading from Harrington east and south to Frankford, Delaware.
Harrington is home to Harrington Raceway & Casino, which is positioned at the Delaware State Fairgrounds.
Federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department.
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"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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Delaware Department of Transportation (2008).
Dover: Delaware Department of Transportation.
Municipalities and communities of Kent County, Delaware, United States State of Delaware Categories: Harrington, Delaware - Cities in Kent County, Delaware - Cities in Delaware
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