Kensington, CA
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Local News — Kensington
- N-word racial slur found written in possible roofing tar across wall at Kensington Hilltop Elementary School — ABC7 Bay Area
- UC Berkeley wants to demolish mansion that long housed UC presidents — Berkeleyside
- Kensington Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution — IQAir
- Why this Bay Area town is among the country's most unique — SFGATE
- Chauncey Hare. Kitchen, Kensington, California. 1968 — MoMA
Official Local Resources
Contra Costa County · ca.gov · California Department of Motor Vehicles
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, 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.