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Kent Town is an inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters local government area.

Kent Town was named for Benjamin Archer Kent (1808 – 25 November 1864), a medical practitioner of Walsall, Staffordshire, who emigrated to South Australia aboard Warrior, arriving in April 1840 with his wife Marjory Redman Kent, née Bonnar, and two children, Benjamin Andrew Kent, and Graham Eliza Kent, who in 1848 married Frederick Charles Bayer (died 15 August 1867). Hydraulic engineer C. A. Bayer and architect E. H. Bayer were sons. Another son, Tom, was a kangaroo hunter, who went to live at the township of Yalata (now Fowlers Bay) on the west coast, and created a cluster of cottages named "Kent Town", which no longer exist. Kent established a flour mill and farm which failed financially and he was obliged to return to his profession to support his family. He sold his property at a handsome profit, repaid all his creditors and returned to England. He was the attendant physician when Edwin Thomas Smith was born in 1830. Smith later built his Kent Town Brewery on the site of the doctor's cottage. Kent Town was the location of two successive sites of the Kent Town Brewery, the second of which in 1888 became the malthouse for SA Brewing, now redeveloped into apartments. In the latter half of the 19th century, a tram network serviced Kent Town, with one branch running eastwards to Kensington Gardens. They transitioned from horse drawn trams around 1909, and were all removed in the 1950s.

There is a large section of land known as "Dr Kent's Paddock", much of which is now part of Prince Alfred College grounds. and built by the Housing Trust in two stages, the first in 1978–9 and the second in 1981. The medium density complex includes a warehouse conversion The Australian Institute of Architects regards it as a good model of social housing, "designed with consideration of community, environmental performance, privacy and access to landscaped space". In early November 2023, after receiving 38 written submissions during the consultation period, the Heritage Council provisionally listed Dr Kent's Paddock Housing Complex in the South Australian Heritage Register under the Heritage Places Act 1993.

The 2016 Census by the Australian Bureau of Statistics measured the population of Kent Town at 1,210 persons. By the 2021 Census, there were 1,443 persons recorded. They are predominantly male (56.7%), with a median age of 36. There were 303 families, with an average of 1.5 children per family. Around 43% of people aged 15 and above were tertiary educated. People born in Australia accounted for 58.3%, with the next largest group (5.6%) born in England. More people (42.6%) had both parents born overseas than both in Australia (41.5%).

Prince Alfred College, an independent school for boys is located on Dequetteville Terrace, the western boundary of the suburb.

During the Adelaide Fringe festival, the world's second largest annual arts festival, the bars and restaurants of Kent Town receive thousands of customers. The local Kent Town Hotel is popular.

Kent Town is serviced by buses run by the Adelaide Metro, including along Flinders Street, Dequetteville Terrace, The Parade West, and Rundle Street.