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Kempton Park is a city 11 kilometers northeast of South Africa's biggest city and financial hub, Johannesburg, and falls within the Ekurhuleni Municipality formerly known as the 'East Rand'. This city is a relatively small city with a mixed population estimated at somewhere between 400 000 and 800 000 people. It is mainly a residential city with a strong industrial centre in the districts of Isando, Spartan and Pomona. Due to the city's close proximity to Johannesburg and reasonable proximity to the Capital city Pretoria, it is the logical choice to host the Johannesburg International Airport. This often means that tourists first encounters with South Africa is the city of Kempton Park. Due to the Airport and the Precinct that surrounds it, the city boasts a world class Casino in Emperor's Palace (Formerly Caesars Palace), with conferencing facilities and 3 hotels (of which one is a 5 star) and a several other international brands of hotels. The city itself is laid back and dominated by middle class inhabitants of all creeds. It is the mixture of a modern metropolis and the privacy and intimacy of a small town.

Kempton Park is a large town on the East Rand in Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1903 when Karl Wolff sub-divided a portion of his Zuurfontein farm into residential stands and named the new village Kempten after the Bavarian town of his birth. The name was anglicised into Kempton Park. In 1952 the Jan Smuts Airport was built on land next to the town. The airport's name was changed to Johannesburg International Airport in the late 1990s. Kempton Park has been part of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since 2000. Kempton Park is located north-east of Johannesburg and south of Pretoria lying in the middle of the two cities.

The city has 5 Major High-schools (Secondary Schools) Hoërskool Jeugland, Kempton Hoër (Kempton High), Birchleigh Hoër, Norkem Park High, Sir Pierre van Ryneveld.

Kempton Park is next to one of the largest townships in South-Africa called Tembisa.

Kempton Park was declared a City in 1992 and has the following suburbs: Birchleigh, Kempton Park West, Edleen, Van Riebeek Park, Glen Marais, Allen Grove, Nimrod Park, Rhodesfield, Bonaero Park, Terenure,Esther Park, Aston Manor.