Stockton, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Stockton city is a mid-size city in California, with 320,470 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #11 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 33.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Stockton city earn a median of $76,851 a year, 2.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 16% below the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 15.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Stockton city is valued at $412,900, 36.1% above the national figure and 30% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,495 a month, 6.3% above the national figure, or roughly $17,940 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 53.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.