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Stockton, CA — Median Google reviews: 228, above the 124 elsewhere

We measured 72 dental practices in Stockton serving 320,470 residents, and 4 findings stood out against the other markets we measure.

What we set out to measure

Who takes your plan, and who can see you outside working hours?

Every dental practice below comes from public licensing and business records, counted whether or not it appears in this site’s directory. The findings are what the numbers came back with, not a view we formed first and then looked for support for.

Median Google reviews: 228

That is 104 higher than the 124 typical of the 21 other California markets we measure.

Median Google reviews
  • Stockton228
  • Other California markets (21)124

The middle number of Google reviews among dental practices that have any. A low median usually means a market of smaller or newer dental practices. We could check 93% of Stockton dental practices for this.

Open Saturday or Sunday: 24%

That is 8 points above the 16% typical of the 24 other California markets we measure.

Open Saturday or Sunday
  • Stockton24%
  • Other California markets (24)16%

Share of dental practices whose published hours include Saturday or Sunday, out of the dental practices whose hours we have on record. Measured over 16 of 68. We could check 94% of Stockton dental practices for this.

Half of all dental practices sit in 1 of 8 ZIP codes

38 of them are in 95207 alone, out of the 72 we could place.

Open past 6pm on a weekday: 3%

2 of the 68 dental practices we counted in Stockton.

Open past 6pm on a weekday
  • Stockton3%
  • Other California markets (24)7%

Share of dental practices whose published hours run past 6pm on at least one weekday, out of the dental practices whose hours we have on record. Measured over 2 of 68. We could check 94% of Stockton dental practices for this.

What this does not tell you

  • Insurance figures describe what offices publish, not what they will accept. Confirm your own plan with the office before you book.
  • Counts say nothing about price, wait time, or whether an office is taking new patients.
  • A group practice with six dentists and a solo office each count as one.

How this was measured

What was counted
72 dental practices with a Stockton address in public licensing and business records. 61 of them meet this site’s bar to appear in the directory; the findings above are measured over all of them.
Residents
320,470, US Census Bureau acs5-2023.
Measured
August 30, 2026. We keep every earlier measurement rather than overwriting it, so a later report can say what changed.
How complete this is
92% of the measures this vertical tracks had enough coverage to report here. The rest are withheld rather than estimated, and are listed on the data page.
Method version
1.0

Where the records come from

  • American Dentists practice directory (production migration export) 1,343 records, retrieved August 26, 2026.