Editing Stockton, California (section)

===Rankings===

* In 2020, ''U.S. News & World Report'' named Stockton as America's most diverse city.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2020-01-22/us-news-special-report-stockton-calif-is-the-most-diverse-city-in-america |title=U.S. News Special Report: Stockton, Calif., Is the Most Diverse City in America |work=U.S. News & World Report |date=January 22, 2020 |access-date=July 19, 2022}}</ref>

Due to a number of socio-economic problems, Stockton has been subject to a series of negative national rankings:

* In a 2010 Gallup poll, Stockton was tied with [[Montgomery, Alabama]] for the most obese metro area in the US with an obesity rate of 34.6 percent.<ref>{{cite web|author=David Siders |url=http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100305/A_NEWS/3050330 |title=Stockton area tops poll of nation's most obese regions |publisher=Recordnet.com |date=March 5, 2010 |access-date=February 16, 2013}}</ref>
* In the February 2012 issue of ''Forbes'', the magazine ranked Stockton the eighth most miserable US city, largely as a result of the steep drop in home values and high unemployment.<ref name=money.cnn.com />
* In 2012 the [[National Insurance Crime Bureau]] ranked Stockton seventh in auto theft rate per capita in the US.<ref>Money.MSN.com 8/2012</ref>
* In 2012, Stockton was ranked as the tenth most dangerous city in America and the second most dangerous in California (behind Oakland).<ref name="finance.yahoo.com">{{cite web|last=Rogers |first=Abby |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-25-most-dangerous-cities-in-america.html?page=all |title=The 25 Most Dangerous Cities in America - Yahoo! Finance |publisher=Finance.yahoo.com |date=November 1, 2012 |access-date=February 16, 2013}}</ref>
* In 2013, Stockton was ranked as the third least literate city in the U.S. in a study by Central Connecticut State University, with less than 17% of adults holding a college degree,<ref>[http://homes.yahoo.com/news/america-s-most-and-least-literate-cities-224612878.html "America's most and least literate cities"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130220225040/http://homes.yahoo.com/news/america-s-most-and-least-literate-cities-224612878.html |date=February 20, 2013 }}. 247wallst.com, February 11, 2013.</ref> and ABC.com ranked the city as the third least literate of all U.S. cities with a population of more than 250,000 behind [[Bakersfield, California]], and [[Corpus Christi, Texas]].<ref>turnto23.com</ref>