Benton Park is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Kern County
Kern County is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield.
Kern County compris ...
,
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
, United States. Although it is designated by the
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
as its own place, it is functionally a neighborhood of
Bakersfield
Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, which is located in the Central Valley region.
Bakersfield's population as of the ...
.
The boundaries of the neighborhood of Benton Park extend further than the boundaries of the CDP.
Geography
Benton Park sits at an elevation of . Benton Park is surrounded on 3 sides by the city of Bakersfield, but borders
Old Stine, California to the west.
Demographics
The CDP was first listed in the
2020 census, at which it had 5,333 people in 1,545 households.
2020 Census
References
{{Kern County, California
Census-designated places in Kern County, California
Census-designated places in California