Kensington, CA Weather Forecast and Current Conditions

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 predominantly highly educated and affluent, comprising only single-family residential houses. It is among the safest and cleanest places in the United States, with the 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.

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