Modesto, California

== Economy ==

Modesto has a large agricultural industry which is based on the fertile farmland surrounding the city. Modesto is home to the largest winery in the world: [[E & J Gallo Winery]]. The Gallo Glass Company, a company of Gallo Winery, is the largest wine bottle manufacturing company in the world. Gallo provides about 3,500 jobs to Modesto residents and 2,500 jobs in other parts of the state, country, and world (meaning that most of its employment base is in Modesto).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gallo Rates High for Worker Morale |url=https://www.modbee.com/news/business/article104978751.html |access-date=November 23, 2023}}</ref> In 2023, Gallo laid off 355 of its California workers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lander |first=Jess |date=2023-01-26 |title=California's largest wine company is laying off 355 employees |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/gallo-layoffs-17744008.php |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en}}</ref> Other major privately owned companies based in Modesto include [[Foster Farms Dairy]], [[Royal Robbins]], international award winner Fiscalini Cheese, Sciabica Olive Oil, Acme Construction, Aderholt Specialty, and [[5.11 Tactical]] (formerly a part of Royal Robbins, a United States brand of clothing consisting of [[uniform]]s and [[Military tactics|tactical]] equipment for military). A cannery downtown produces food which is usually shipped to [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]] and [[Fresno, California|Fresno]] for transfer to rail or ship. [[Ceres, California|Ceres]] has a few cereal and snack factories in the area.  There are several small steelworking companies in Modesto. In mid-2008, a number of road projects were underway, with roads being constructed, repaved or repaired, at an estimated total cost of nearly $120&nbsp;million.

===Principal employers===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
| 1
| [[E & J Gallo Winery]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/companies/ej-gallo-winery/|work=Forbes|title=E&J Gallo Winery on the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies List}}</ref>
|5,000
|-
| 2
| [[Memorial Medical Center (Modesto, California)|Memorial Medical Center]]
|3,023
|-
|3
| [[Modesto City Schools]]
|3,010
|-
|4
| [[Tenet Healthcare|Doctors Medical Center]]
|2,600
|-
|5
| [[Kaiser Permanente]]
|1,759
|-
|6
| [[Modesto Junior College]]
|1,522
|-
|7
| Graspointner Management Incorporated
|1,403
|-

|8
| City of Modesto
|1,250
|-
|9
|[[Sutter Gould Medical Foundation]]
|1,079
|-
|10
| [[Save Mart Supermarkets]]
|950
|-
|11
| [[Walmart]]
|745
|-
|12
| [[Sylvan Union School District]]
|712
|-
|13
| [[Modesto Irrigation District]]
| 317
|}

===Crime===
Rates of both violent crimes and property crimes are higher in Modesto than the state average.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/modesto/crime|title=Modesto crime rates and statistics |work=neighborhoodscout.com}}</ref> Of particular note is that Modesto ranks among the top car theft cities in the US. {{As of|2012}}, Modesto ranked number 1 in car thefts per 100,000 people,<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 10 cities for car thefts|date=June 27, 2013 |url=http://autos.yahoo.com/news/top-10-cities-for-car-thefts-005937823.html}}</ref> although the city dropped to number 3 in 2013, behind Bakersfield and Fresno.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nicb.org/newsroom/nicb_campaigns/hot_spots|title=Hot Spots 2013|access-date=October 23, 2014|publisher=nicb.org}}</ref> In Modesto the crime rate is higher than 86% of California's cities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Modesto Crime Rates and Statistics - NeighborhoodScout |url=https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/modesto/crime#description |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=www.neighborhoodscout.com}}</ref>