Stockton, California

Stockton population, 2020 to 2024

Stockton added 4,004 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +2,394. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 118th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Stockton is 8.8 times that size.

Stockton covers 63.30 square miles of land and 3.09 of water, for 5,134 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Stockton is denser than the typical town.

What county Stockton is in

All of Stockton's residents live in San Joaquin County, which had 816,108 residents in 2024. Stockton holds 39.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Stockton

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Stockton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95202, 95203, 95204, 95205, 95206, 95207, 95209, 95210, 95211, 95212, 95219. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Stockton is

The Census internal point of Stockton is at 37.976600, -121.308600. Sacramento, the capital, is 42.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sacramento, CA (535,798 people), 41.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tracy, CA, 18.9 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Stockton

At 37.98° N, Stockton gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Stockton daylight page.

Places near Stockton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Lodi, 10.1 miles away, with 68,642 people.