Census-designated place · San Joaquin County, California

August, California

August is a census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, part of the Stockton-Lodi, CA metro area. It has 8,825 residents. August, California has a quality-of-life score of 2 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,365 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within California it ranks #1,002 of 1,062 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an Amtrak station (low), drought exposure (low) and comfortable days (high). It ranks worst on bachelor's degree or higher (low), poor or fair health (high) and high school diploma or higher (low).

2Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,365 of 15,651 cities and towns
California: #1,002 of 1,062 in CA
Population: 8,825 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 7,027.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 0603209

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety14#13,379/15,637
Economy13#13,526/15,631
Housing3#14,466/14,977
Health30#10,969/15,609
Healthcare32#10,634/15,650
Environment14#13,349/15,453
Education0#15,612/15,649
Infrastructure17#12,948/15,650
Community11#13,989/15,651
Leisure & amenities17#12,991/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where August, California ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “San Joaquin County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Distance to an Amtrak station · low4 mi
99/100California 10 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauSan Joaquin County value
Drought exposure · low0%
98/100California 9%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAASan Joaquin County value
Comfortable days · high34.2%
93/100California 34.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSan Joaquin County value
Suicide rate · low9.4 /100k
86/100California 9.9 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataSan Joaquin County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/100California 12.4%2025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencySan Joaquin County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.55%
84/100California 0.70%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Weaknesses

Bachelor's degree or higher · low3.9%
1/100California 37.1%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Poor or fair health · high37.9%
1/100California 21.5%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
High school diploma or higher · low58.2%
2/100California 84.7%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100California 32.8%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Food insecurity · high38.5%
3/100California 18.5%United States 15.6%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Students per teacher · high22.1×
3/100California 21.7×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsSan Joaquin County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
57.0% (2015-2019) → 89.6% (2020-2024)
+33 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateImproving
44.1% (2015-2019) → 29.2% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Average commute timeWorsening
27.4 min (2015-2019) → 46.6 min (2020-2024)
+70%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
39.7% (2015-2019) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$34,611 (2015-2019) → $53,173 (2020-2024)
+54%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
11.0% (2015-2019) → 19.0% (2020-2024)
+8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, August, California improved on 2 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Broadband+33 points57.0% → 89.6%
Child poverty−15 points44.1% → 29.2%

Declined1

Rent / income+11 points39.7% → 51.0%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of August, California between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	57.0%2015-2019	89.6%2020-2024	+33 points	Improved	99%
Child poverty rate	44.1%2015-2019	29.2%2020-2024	−15 points	Improved	89%
Effective property tax rate	0.59%2015-2019	0.55%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	23%
High school diploma or higher	57.8%2015-2019	58.2%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Home price to income ratio	4.8×2015-2019	5.6×2020-2024	+0.8×	Within the margin of error	31%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4772015-2019	0.4762020-2024	−0.001	Within the margin of error	51%
Median household income	$34,6112015-2019	$53,1732020-2024	+54%	Within the margin of error	87%
Poverty rate	32.5%2015-2019	26.9%2020-2024	−5.6 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	39.7%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	+11 points	Declined	8%
Rent-burdened households	66.9%2015-2019	60.4%2020-2024	−6.5 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Unemployment rate	16.1%2015-2019	10.9%2020-2024	−5.2 points	Within the margin of error	96%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.0%2015-2019	19.0%2020-2024	+8 points	Within the margin of error	5%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like August, California five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of August, California in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, August, California itself moved +6.8 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

8,825 residents (±1,700)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

2,301 households (±247)

August, California
California share

Under $25k22%†508
$25k–50k27%†613
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

2,301 households (±247)

August, California
California share

Own56%1,287
Rent44%1,014

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+17.7 points).

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

3,093 workers (±926)

August, California
California share

Drive alone77%†2,371
Carpool17%†518
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Stockton-Lodi, CA

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of San Joaquin County, the county holding most of August's residents.

San Joaquin County has 13,638 employer establishments, 169 for every 10,000 residents (0.68× the US rate of 248; 0.64× California's), with 232,910 paid employees at an average annual pay of $56,826. The Census Bureau also counts 55,593 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 13,638; 55,593 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 169; US 248 · California 263
Paid employees: 232,910
Average annual pay: $56,826; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of San Joaquin County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Truck transportation	1,291	16	3.17×More than typical	8,947	$62,301	6,890
Restaurants and other eating places	1,159	14.4	0.78×Fewer than typical	20,554	$24,991	287
Ambulatory health care services	1,133	14.1	0.67×Fewer than typical	13,304	$74,481	1,656
Specialty trade contractors	946	11.7	0.76×Fewer than typical	9,572	$72,841	2,049
Lessors of real estate	584	7.2	0.59×Fewer than typical	2,366	$52,199	4,010
Limited-service restaurants	562	7	0.87×About typical	11,107	$23,692	99
Full-service restaurants	403	5	0.65×Fewer than typical	6,774	$27,831	114
Services to buildings and dwellings	399	5	0.73×Fewer than typical	3,525	$41,176	3,544
Automotive repair and maintenance	392	4.9	0.97×About typical	2,464	$51,590	1,118
Construction of buildings	381	4.7	0.63×Fewer than typical	2,687	$77,177	1,301
Building equipment contractors	360	4.5	0.74×Fewer than typical	3,235	$81,415	456
Offices of physicians	333	4.1	0.64×Fewer than typical	2,818	$93,717	222

Rank places for an industry Open San Joaquin County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 806,055 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $948.3K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in August, California: $107 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $948.3K; +219% vs FY2025
Per resident: $107; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 21%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Agricultural Marketing Service$736.2K78%
Forest Service$205.6K22%
Department of Energy$6,5180.7%

Top recipients

SUNRISE FRESH, LLC$368.3K39%
DIAMOND FOODS, LLC$324.6K34%
DIAMOND TRUCK BODY MANUFACTURING, INC.$203.2K21%
BELLA VIVA ORCHARDS, INC.$43.4K4.6%
SHELLY PIMENTEL$8,8640.9%

Spending by fiscal year

2.2KFY2017
1.5KFY2018
1.1MFY2019
84KFY2020
454.1KFY2021
1.5MFY2022
1.4MFY2023
1.1MFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing · 3114$411.7K43%
Other food manufacturing · 3119$324.6K34%
Motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing · 3362$203.2K21%
Automotive repair and maintenance · 8111$8,8640.9%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in August, California, so they do not add up across cities.

August, California's figures are part of those of San Joaquin County, CA ($460.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.2% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: August is mostly in San Joaquin County.

See federal money in San Joaquin County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

August, California is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

San Joaquin County28100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Stockton-Lodi, CA28

Other cities and towns in San Joaquin County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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