Kenton is a town in Kent County, Delaware, United States.

[4] Kenton was first laid out in 1796 by Philip Lewis who had begun to acquire property in the area five years before in 1791.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2), all land.

About 10.6% of families and 15.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19.7% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those sixty five or over.

DE 42 passes northwest–southeast through the town on Commerce Street, heading northwest toward Blackiston and east toward Cheswold, where it has an intersection with U.S. Route 13 that provides access to the city of Dover to the south.

DE 300 passes southwest–northeast through the town on Main Street, heading west toward the Maryland border and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and northeast toward Smyrna, where it has an intersection with US 13 that provides access to the city of Wilmington to the north.

[9] Delmarva Power, a subsidiary of Exelon, provides electricity to Kenton.