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Dogtown, California.

A community in San Joaquin County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see San Joaquin County’s.

Living in Dogtown, San Joaquin County, California

Dogtown, in San Joaquin County, had 2,516 people in the 2020 census. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in San Joaquin County was 6.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in San Joaquin County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 2,516 in the 2020 census; median age 43.3
Household income Too few homes in Dogtown for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 6.5% San Joaquin County, August 2026; 6.8% a year before
Homes 79% lived in by their owners; 21% rented
  • 1,083households
  • 21%of adults have a degree
  • 5%below the poverty line
  • 38 mintypical commute
  • 24%work from home

What people in San Joaquin County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care21%
  • Shops (retail)12%
  • Professional and business services11%
  • Manufacturing10%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities9%
  • Building trades8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Joaquin County had 290,380 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 57° and 39°; warmest in July, 92° and 59° 40° 60° 80° 100° J F M A M J J 92° 59° A S O N D 57° 39°
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 57° and 39°; warmest in July, 92° and 59° 40° 60° 80° 100° J F M A M J J 92° 59° A S O N D 57° 39°

Coldest in December, with highs near 57° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 59°. About 18 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lodi weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in San Joaquin County

  1. Stockton UnifiedSchool district3,656FTE
  2. AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,623
  3. CDCR CA Health Care FacilityCorrectional institutions3,473
  4. Lodi UnifiedSchool district2,827FTE
  5. AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,717
  6. St. Josephs Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,389FTE
  7. San Joaquin General HospitalLocal government2,342
  8. Manteca UnifiedSchool district2,254FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 608 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 100,955 people in all across the county; Dogtown has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. DroughtRelatively high
  2. Inland floodingRelatively high
  3. WildfireRelatively moderate
  4. EarthquakesRelatively moderate
  5. Heat wavesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dogtown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on San Joaquin County.