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Stockton, 
United States
398,470 people lived in Stockton in 2025. It is the 1419th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 48th largest in the United States.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Stockton's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Stockton grew
Where Stockton had 10 people in 1985, it had 52.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 423,058 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Stockton through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Stockton in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Stockton is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the United States in 2025, 348 in all, led by New York City, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Stockton covered 150 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 43 km² of it. That is 108 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 10 by 10 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 5.2 times its size, and its people are 5.3 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 1 lived in Stockton, which is 398,470 people.
How to read this: shrink the United States to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Stockton; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1415 Podolsk Russia400,335
- 1416 Guarenas Venezuela399,477
- 1417 Manisa Türkiye399,014
- 1418 Wuzhou China398,593
- 1419 Stockton398,470
- 1420 Biratnagar Nepal398,453
- 1421 Pratapgarh India398,315
- 1422 Sanya China398,270
- 1423 Pingliang China398,221
In the United States, 2025
- 1329 Tucson422,107
- 1356 Escondido415,167
- 1373 Albuquerque410,810
- 1397 North Richland Hills404,680
- 1419 Stockton398,470
- 1436 Colorado Springs394,888
- 1475 Pittsburgh385,498
- 1553 Plano367,716
- 1557 Riverside367,336
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Stockton are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Stockton publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries