Kempton Park has been a part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since 2000. It is located on the western city limits of Ekurhuleni and shares its administrative boundaries with South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg.
Kempton Park was established in 1903 when Karl Friedrich Wolff sub-divided a portion of his Zuurfontein farm into 216 residential plots and named the new town “Kempten” after the German town in Bavaria where he was born. Soon after, the name was anglicised to Kempton Park.
O.R. Tambo International Airport (Africa’s busiest airport) is located in Kempton Park. Originally Jan Smuts International Airport was built in 1952 and officially opened in 1953. The name was changed to Johannesburg International Airport in the late 1990s and then to O.R. Tambo International Airport in 2006
Kempton Park was declared a City in 1992 and is made up of the following suburbs:
- Allen Grove
- Aston Manor
- Birch Acres
- Birchleigh
- Birchleigh North
- Bonaero Park
- Bredell
- Cresslawn
- Croydon
- Edleen
- Esther Park
- Glen Marais
- Isando
- Kempton Park West
- Nimrod Park
- Norkem Park
- Pomona
- Rhodesfield
- Spartan
- Terenure
- Van Riebeeck Park
