Dixon is a somewhat small coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 16,089 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Dixon is the 345th largest community in California.

Dixon is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Dixon is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dixon who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.54%), sales jobs (9.97%), and management occupations (7.15%).

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

One of the nice things about Dixon is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the city are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

Dixon is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Dixon Information and Demographics

The population of Dixon 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 Dixon, 18.68% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Dixon in 2000 was $20,139, 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 $80,556 for a family of four. However, Dixon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Dixon is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dixon home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Dixon is White, followed by Asian. Dixon also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.34% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Dixon include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Portuguese.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Dixon's cultural character, accounting for 18.48% of the city's population.

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