Kensington, California
Kensington | |
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Location in Contra Costa County and the state of California | |
| Coordinates: 37°54′38″N 122°16′49″W / 37.91056°N 122.28028°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Contra Costa |
| Government | |
| • County Board | District 1: John Gioia |
| • State Senate | Tim Grayson (D) |
| • State Assembly | Buffy Wicks (D) |
| • U. S. Congress | John Garamendi (D) |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.973 sq mi (2.52 km2) |
| • Land | 0.964 sq mi (2.50 km2) |
| • Water | 0.009 sq mi (0.02 km2) 0.92% |
| Elevation | 587 ft (179 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 5,428 |
| • Density | 5,600/sq mi (2,200/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP codes | 94707, 94708 |
| Area code | 510, 341 |
| GNIS ID | 1658891, 2408472 |
| FIPS code | 06-38086 |
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Kensington is an unincorporated community and census designated place located in the Berkeley Hills, in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area, in Contra Costa County, California. In the 20th century it was considered part of Berkeley, although it is across the county line. House numbers follow the pattern used in Berkeley, and Kensington shares two zip codes with the Berkeley Hills area.
Kensington’s community is mostly highly educated and affluent, and it is composed only of single family residential houses. It is among the safest and cleanest places in the United States, with a nation’s top public elementary school. Many distinguished University of California, Berkeley Professors, Nobel Prize Laureates, and other notable San Francisco Bay Area professionals reside or have resided in Kensington, such as University of California, Berkeley’s theoretical physicist and professor of physics Robert Oppenheimer who was the Director of the Manhattan Project’s Project Y that developed the atomic bombs during World War II. The population was 5,428 at the 2020 census.