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Stanford, California

Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is the home of Stanford University, after which it was named. The CDP's population was 21,150 at the 2020 census. Stanford is adjacent to the city of Palo Alto, which borders it to the east, but the CDP itself remains unincorporated.

Most of the Stanford University campus and other core University-owned land is situated within the CDP of Stanford, though the Stanford University Medical Center, the Stanford Shopping Center, and the Stanford Research Park are officially part of the city of Palo Alto. Its resident population consists of the inhabitants of on-campus housing, including graduate student residences and single-family homes and condominiums owned by their faculty inhabitants but located on leased Stanford land.

The adjacent neighborhood of College Terrace, a residential neighborhood with streets named after universities and colleges, is neither part of the Stanford CDP nor owned by the university (except for a few individual houses). Instead, it is part of Palo Alto.

Stanford is located at 37°25′21″N 122°9′55″W / 37.42250°N 122.16528°W / 37.42250; -122.16528 (37.422590, −122.165413).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.80 square miles (7.3 km2), of which, 2.75 square miles (7.1 km2) is land and 0.045 square miles (0.12 km2) (1.62%) is water.

This region experiences warm, dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 77.6 °F (25.3 °C), and cool, wet winters, with no average monthly temperatures below 37.7 °F (3.2 °C). According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Stanford has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.

The 2020 United States census reported that Stanford had a population of 21,150. The population density was 7,690.9 inhabitants per square mile (2,969.5/km2). The racial makeup of Stanford was 55.7% White, 5.1% African American, 0.2% Native American, 24.6% Asian, 1.1% Pacific Islander, 3.6% from other races, and 9.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.6% of the population.

The census reported that 41.0% of the population lived in households, 59.0% lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and no one was institutionalized.

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