| Lodi, California | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Motto: | "Livable, Lovable, Lodi"[1] |
| Mapsize: | 250x200px |
| Pushpin Map: | USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Lodi |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the United States |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | California |
| Subdivision Name2: | San Joaquin |
| Established Title: | Incorporated |
| Established Date: | December 6, 1906[2] |
| Government Type: | Council-Mayor |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Lisa Craig[3] |
| Leader Title1: | State Senate |
| Leader Name1: | [4] |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [5] |
| Area Total Km2: | 35.90 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 13.86 |
| Area Land Km2: | 35.32 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 13.64 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.58 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.22 |
| Area Water Percent: | 1.54 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [6] |
| Elevation M: | 15 |
| Elevation Ft: | 35 |
| Population Total: | 66348 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Footnotes: | [7] |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 4955.71 |
| Population Est: | 67258 |
| Pop Est As Of: | 2022 |
| Pop Est Footnotes: | [8] |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP Codes |
| Postal Code: | 95240–95242 |
| Area Code: | 209, 350 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Leader Title2: | Assembly |
| Leader Title3: | U. S. Congress |
| Leader Name3: | [9] |
| Timezone: | PST |
| Utc Offset: | −8 |
| Timezone Dst: | PDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −7 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature IDs |
| Blank1 Info: | , |
| Population Density Km2: | 1913.41 |
Lodi is a city located in San Joaquin County, California, United States, in the center portion of California's Central Valley. The population was 66,348 at the 2020 census.
When a group of local families decided to establish a school in 1859, they settled on a site near present-day Cherokee Lane and Turner Road. In 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad was in the process of creating a new route, and pioneer settlers Ezekiel Lawrence, Reuben Wardrobe, A. C. Ayers, and John Magley offered a townsite of 160acres to the railroad as an incentive to build a station there. The railroad received a "railroad reserve" of 12acres in the middle of town, and surveyors began laying out streets in the area between Washington to Church and Locust to Walnut. Settlers flocked from nearby Woodbridge, Liberty City, and Galt, including town founders John M. Burt and Dan Crist.
Initially called Mokelumne and Mokelumne Station after the nearby river, confusion with other nearby towns prompted a name change, which was officially endorsed in Sacramento by an assembly bill. Several stories have been offered about the origins of the town's name change. One refers to a locally stabled trotting horse that had set a four-mile (6 km) record, but as the horse reached the peak of its fame in 1869, it is unlikely that its notoriety would still have been evident in 1873. Alternatively, Lodi is a city in northern Italy where Napoleon defeated the Austrians in 1796 and won his first military victory. More than likely, some of the earliest settler families were from Lodi, Illinois, and they chose to use the same name as their hometown.
In 1906, the city was officially incorporated by voters, passing by a margin of 2 to 1. The fire department was established in 1911, and the city purchased the Bay City Gas and Water Works in 1919. Additional public buildings constructed during this period include the Lodi Opera House in 1905, a Carnegie library in 1909, and a hospital in 1915.
The 2020 United States Census reported that Lodi had a population of 66,348. The population density was 4494.5sp=usNaNsp=us. The racial makeup of Lodi was 62.1% White, 1.8% African American, 0.5% Native American, 9.7% Asian, 0.4% Pacific Islander, and 17.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 22,613 persons 37.8%.
There were 22,097 households, out of which 8,462 (38.3%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 10,952 (49.6%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 2,917 (13.2%) had a female householder with no husband present, 1,389 (6.3%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 1,530 (6.9%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 105 (0.5%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 5,547 households (25.1%) were made up of individuals, and 2,567 (11.6%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78. There were 15,258 families (69.1% of all households); the average family size was 3.35.
The population was spread out, with 17,282 people (27.8%) under the age of 18, 5,863 people (9.4%) aged 18 to 24, 15,931 people (25.6%) aged 25 to 44, 14,681 people (23.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 8,377 people (13.5%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34.3 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.1 males.
There were 23,792 housing units at an average density of 1721/mi2, of which 12,091 (54.7%) were owner-occupied, and 10,006 (45.3%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 8.2%. 32,153 people (51.7% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 29,304 people (47.2%) lived in rental housing units. The Census reported that 61,457 people (98.9% of the population) lived in households, 187 (0.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 490 (0.8%) were institutionalized.
There were approximately 4,336 adults who hadn't passed ninth grade, 5,175 with some high school education, 8,910 who had completed a high school education only, 8,367 with some college, 2,777 with an associate degree; People with a bachelor's degree numbered 3,797; those with a graduate degree, 1,685. Seventy-nine percent of the population had a high school diploma or higher.[10]
Lodi is flat terrain at an elevation of approximately 50feet above mean sea level datum.[11] Historically, land in the area has been used for grazing as well as for grain production.[12]
There has long been a movement in the area to preserve a "greenbelt" as a buffer zone between Lodi and Stockton in order to keep the two cities separate.[13]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city covers an area of 13.8sqmi, 98.46% of it land, and 1.54% of it water.
Lodi has cool, wet winters, often characterized by dense ground fog, and hot, dry summers with a considerably higher degree of diurnal temperature variation than in winter. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Lodi has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Due to the city's proximity to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, summer temperatures usually dip into the fifties at night. Fog and low overcast sometimes drifts in from San Francisco Bay during the summer and it can be breezy at times, especially at night.
Average January temperatures are a maximum of 55°F and a minimum of 37°F. Average July temperatures are a maximum of 91°F and a minimum of 57°F. There are an average of 65.3 days with highs of 90°F or higher and an average of 30.5 days with lows of 32°F or lower. The record high temperature was 111°F on June 15, 1961. The record low temperature was 11°F on January 11, 1949.
Annual precipitation averages 18inches, falling on an average of 59 days. The wettest year was 1983 with 35.4inches and the driest year was 1976 with 7.18inches. The most rainfall in one month was 15.01inches in January 1911. The most rainfall in 24 hours was 3.76inches on December 11, 1906. Snow is very rare in Lodi, but 1.5inches fell on January 12, 1930. January is the wettest month.