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 citizens of Tracy are slightly better educated than the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns, with 18.02% of adults in Tracy having a bachelor's degree or advanced 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.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Tracy's cultural character, accounting for 16.83% of the city's population.

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