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Stockton Today. Stockton is the County seat for San Joaquin County. The City of Stockton is one of California's fastest growing communities. Stockton is currently the 13th largest city in California with a dynamic, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural population of about 300,000.
Today, the city continues to serve as a major shipping point for the many of agricultural and manufactured products of Northern California. A German immigrant, Charles M. Weber, who had acquired over 48,000 acres through a Mexican land grant, founded Stockton in 1849.