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About Kensington
Unincorporated community in California, United StatesKensington 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, United States. 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 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.
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Housing in Kensington
The typical Kensington home is worth about $1,491,000, up 4.5% in a year, 95% above the California typical home.
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Safety in Kensington
Safety Grade B-
Kensington reports less crime per resident than 53% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
Schools in Kensington
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The public schools Kensington’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 75% of California’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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