Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Kentfield, CA

Kentfield is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, and its census area also takes in the unincorporated part of neighboring Greenbrae.

The settlement began in 1857 as Ross Landing, a trading post established by James Ross, and it took its modern name from Albert Emmett Kent, who bought the land in 1871.

Kentfield was also known as Tamalpais and simply Kent before settling on its current name, given by the Kent family who developed the community.

Kentfield had a population of 6,808 at the 2020 census, up modestly from 6,030 in 1990, the first census in which it appeared as a census-designated place.

Kentfield's roughly 2,700 households average about 2.5 people each, and more than 80% of its homes are owner-occupied, with the Census Bureau valuing the median owner-occupied home at over $2 million.

Kentfield is home to the main campus of the College of Marin, founded in 1926 as Marin Junior College and renamed College of Marin in 1948, one of the community's defining institutions.

Local children attend Adaline E. Kent Middle School, named for Adaline Kent, wife of Albert Emmett Kent, who moved to Marin County in 1871 and bought the land that became Kentfield.

Kentfield sits on the eastern slopes of Mount Tamalpais at an elevation of about 115 feet, just two miles southwest of downtown San Rafael.

Kentfield receives roughly 48 inches of rain a year, making it one of the wettest spots in the San Francisco Bay region.

Kentfield shares its 94904 ZIP code with Greenbrae, with 94914 used for its post office boxes.