Map of Stanford CDP, 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. The population was 21,150 at the 2020 census.

Stanford is an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County and is adjacent to the city of Palo Alto.

The place is named after Stanford University. Most of the Stanford University campus and other core University owned land is situated within the census-designated place 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. A residential neighborhood adjacent to the Stanford campus, College Terrace, featuring streets named after universities and colleges, is neither part of the Stanford CDP nor owned by the University (except for a few individual houses) but is instead part of Palo Alto.

Stanford CDP overview:
Name:	Stanford CDP
LSAD Code:	57
LSAD Description:	CDP (suffix)
State:	California
County:	Santa Clara County
Elevation:	95 ft (29 m)
Total Area:	2.776 sq mi (7.190 km²)
Land Area:	2.731 sq mi (7.072 km²)
Water Area:	0.045 sq mi (0.118 km²) 1.64%
Total Population:	21,150
Population Density:	7,600/sq mi (2,900/km²)
Area code:	650
FIPS code:	0673906

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Geography

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 2.8 square miles (7.3 km), of which, 2.7 square miles (7.0 km) is land and 0.045 square miles (0.12 km) (1.64%) is water.

Climate

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.