Tracy is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 56,839 people and ten constituent neighborhoods, Tracy is the 132nd largest community in California.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Tracy is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tracy is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tracy who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.90%), sales jobs (12.84%), and management occupations (8.93%).

Also of interest is that Tracy has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One downside of living in Tracy is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Tracy, the average commute to work is 41.94 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Tracy is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.

Tracy Information and Demographics

The population of Tracy overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 14.96%. Of adults 25 and older in Tracy, 18.02% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Tracy in 2000 was $21,397, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $85,588 for a family of four.

Tracy is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tracy home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Tracy is White, followed by Asian. Tracy also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.68% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Tracy include German, Irish, English, Portuguese, and Italian.

Tracy also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 16.83%.

The most common language spoken in Tracy is English. Some people also speak Spanish.