Arheel's Uncle
Senior Reporter
Stockton mass shooting: Manhunt underway after 4 killed, 11 injured at child's birthday party
A manhunt continues for the people believed to have been behind the Stockton-area mass shooting that killed four and injured 11 at a child's birthday party.
- 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.
- 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.
- In 2012 the National Insurance Crime Bureau ranked Stockton seventh in auto theft rate per capita in the US.
- In 2012, Stockton was ranked as the tenth most dangerous city in America and the second most dangerous in California (behind Oakland).
- 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, 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.
| Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) | Pop 2000[67] | Pop 2010[68] | % 2000 | % 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White alone (NH) | 78,539 | 66,836 | 54,765 | 32.22% | 22.91% | 17.07% |
| Black or African American alone (NH) | 26,359 | 33,507 | 38,178 | 10.81% | 11.49% | 11.90% |
| Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) | 1,337 | 1,237 | 1,237 | 0.55% | 0.42% | 0.39% |
| Asian alone (NH) | 47,093 | 60,323 | 67,738 | 19.32% | 20.68% | 21.12% |
| Pacific Islander alone (NH) | 810 | 1,622 | 2,440 | 0.33% | 0.56% | 0.76% |
| Other race alone (NH) | 496 | 470 | 1,608 | 0.20% | 0.16% | 0.50% |
| Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) | 9,920 | 10,122 | 13,237 | 4.07% | 3.47% | 4.13% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 79,217 | 117,590 | 141,601 | 32.50% | 40.31% | 44.14% |
| Total | 243,771 | 291,707 | 320,804 | 100.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% |