Neighborhood bordering Grantville with Kensington-Normal Heights Library, Kensington Park and Franklin Elementary School.
Search this neighborhoodKensington is a neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the San Diego Police Department’s neighborhood outlines, with about 6,100 residents. Its edges follow El Cajon Boulevard on the south, Fairmount Avenue on the east and I-15 and 40th Street on the west. It also borders the Grantville neighborhood to the north. Parks inside it include Kensington Park (0.5 acres) and Terrace Drive Mini-Park (0.3 acres). Other places inside it include Kensington-Normal Heights Library, Franklin Elementary School and Copley-Price Family YMCA.
By area, Kensington is zoned mostly Residential - Single Unit (RS-1-7, RS-1-1), Open Space - Conservation (OC-1-1) and Open Space - Residential (OR-1-1, OR-1-2). Transit with a stop inside it includes Route 1 (Fashion Valley - La Mesa) and Route 11 (SDSU - Downtown San Diego). Permits issued here over the past year, still open, are mostly combination building permits and building permits. Run an address search on CivicScout to see the details for a specific property.
CivicScout counts San Diego Police Department offense reports that carry a map location inside the Kensington police-neighborhood outline. Citywide, about 3% of offense reports, and about the same share of reports of serious violent crime (about 1 in 8 rape reports), carries no map location and is not counted, and the newest weeks are still being filled in as reports are approved, so the counts understate crime, violent crime included, and cannot show that an area has little of it. Sex offenses are shown at block level, about 100 meters, without a case number. The department’s own process entries (mental-health holds, warrants, probation and parole lines, citations and infractions) are not counted. Incidents handled by other police agencies do not appear: federal military bases, the airport and the Port of San Diego tidelands (the Port’s Harbor Police), UC San Diego and San Diego State University (campus police), the City, Mesa and Miramar colleges, the California Highway Patrol on the freeways, the Sheriff in the unincorporated county, and the police departments of Coronado, National City, Chula Vista and the other neighboring cities.
View safety data →Permits issued in Kensington over the past year, still open, are mostly in the categories combination building permits and building permits. San Diego’s permit data covers about the past 21 months and leaves out trade, sign, traffic-control and right-of-way permits; a permit with no map location (about 1 in 400 active permits) is not counted in any neighborhood.
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View new construction →Zoning in Kensington is mostly Residential - Single Unit, Open Space - Conservation and Open Space - Residential, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →A CivicScout report for any Kensington address combines permits, police reports, 311 requests, parks and zoning within a half mile. San Diego’s 311 data (Get It Done) shows only open requests from the past 90 days, so a request that has been resolved is not shown and an address with none listed may still have had one.
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