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Stanford is an unincorporated census-designated place in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, named for and built around Stanford University; it sits directly beside the city of Palo Alto.

Stanford University was founded in 1885 by former California governor and senator Leland Stanford and his wife Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at age 15 in 1884.

The university opened its doors on October 1, 1891, and was untraditional from the start — coeducational and nondenominational at a time when most private universities were neither.

The campus occupies the Stanfords' 8,180-acre Palo Alto Stock Farm, which is why Stanford is still nicknamed 'the Farm'; the Founding Grant stipulated that the land could never be sold.

Most of the Stanford campus lies inside the CDP, but the Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford Shopping Center, and Stanford Research Park are officially within the city of Palo Alto.

The Stanford Research Park, established in 1951, pioneered the university-industry partnership model that helped give rise to Silicon Valley.

Stanford had a population of 21,150 at the 2020 census, a jump of about 53% from 2010 as new on-campus graduate housing opened.

Stanford's demographics are like nowhere else: at the 2020 census, 59% of its residents lived in group quarters such as dormitories and graduate residences, and only 41% lived in households.

Stanford has only about 3,428 households, averaging just 1.91 people each.

Most Stanford residents are students living in on-campus housing, along with faculty and staff living in homes they own on land leased from the university.