The Stockton-Lodi, CA reading is mixed rather than uniformly stressed: of four signals, 1 is elevated, with 17 notices for layoff notices (WARN) at 0.24% the only leg flagged, against 4 closures for store closures at 1.65 per 100k jobs, $231.0mm for bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line at 7.08%, and 0 loan records for securitized loans in special servicing at 0%; across the 6 pairs of legs compared, 3 pairs with both legs quiet and 3 pairs where the legs disagree, with none both elevated and none unreadable because a side is blind, leaving the picture one of employment-side stress running ahead of the property and balance-sheet legs rather than broad-based CRE distress.
| Signal | Level | Rate | Rank by count | Rank by rate | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| store closures store closures per 100,000 jobs |
4 closures | 1.65 per 100k jobs | 116 of 392 | 240 of 392 | quiet trailing 365 days to today
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| layoff notices (WARN) workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment |
17 notices | 0.24% | 40 of 382 | 100 of 382 | elevated trailing 365 days to today
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| bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line share of the CRE lent into this metro that sits at a lender over the blended-noncurrent line |
$231.0mm | 7.08% | 103 of 393 | 98 of 393 | quiet
allocated 2026-06-30
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| securitized loans in special servicing share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing |
0 loan records | 0% | 220 of 335 | 220 of 335 | quiet 2026-09-29
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In Stockton-Lodi, CA, the elevated distress signal is the real-economy side: the count of WARN notices over the past year stands out, consistent with a phase reading of early, while CRE credit distress remains limited — CMBS in special servicing is $0.0mm, equal to a 0.0% share of this metro's CMBS balance in special servicing, the share of bank CRE needing no branch-deposit allocation is 0.0%, bank CRE at risk at the 90th percentile is 4.6%, bank CRE lent into this metro is $3.26bn, assets at those lenders total $0.00bn, and CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line is $231.0mm. The reading on CMBS loans in special servicing as a loan count is unavailable, as is the count of distressed banks, so those two cannot be read from the figures provided.
| Bank | Deposit share | CRE / Capital* | Room contributed | Noncurrent CRE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmers & Merchants Bank Of Central California CA | 43.5% | 164% total 224%
|
🔒 | 0.04% |
| Bac Community Bank CA | 64.5% | 276% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Oak Valley Community Bank CA | 29.8% | 289% total 379%
|
🔒 | 0.00% |
| Citizens Business Bank, National Association CA | 0.5% | 281% total 406%
|
🔒 | 0.06% |
| Community West Bank CA | 3.2% | 298% total 391%
|
🔒 | 0.56% |
| United Business Bank CA | 3.9% | 402% total 555%
|
🔒 | 0.48% |
| Mechanics Bank CA | 0.3% | 340% total 362%
|
🔒 | 0.30% |
| Bank | Total CRE | CRE / Capital* | Noncurrent CRE | Early Warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmers & Merchants Bank Of Central California | $1.6B | 164% total 224%
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0.04% | 🔒 |
| Bank Of Stockton | $1.4B | 89% total 137%
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0.03% | 🔒 |
| Bac Community Bank | $344M | 276% total 362%
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0.00% | 🔒 |
Yes — on this platform's proxy, local bank capacity comfortably covers the CMBS wall in Stockton-Lodi, CA: with 7 qualifying local banks and 0 excluded from the calculation, room before committed draws stands at $457.2mm and room after committed draws at $356.6mm, against $92.0mm of CMBS maturing in the window across 6 loans, for a wall-to-room ratio of 0.26 (0.20 before committed draws). That 0.26 is ABOVE the median of 0.24 and ranks 130 of 275, counting from the most strained, so the metro is more strained than the typical ranked metro even though capacity is described as slack. Note the total CMBS balance here of $418.0mm, committed construction draws of $115.2mm and a distressed share of 0.0%; the room figure is a deposit-footprint proxy for lending capacity, and the wall covers only maturing CMBS this platform can see.
Over the trailing 365, Stockton-Lodi, CA shows 11 WARN layoff notices covering 795 jobs on those notices (a floor, since notices stating no headcount count as zero jobs) alongside 4 store closures, while cRE-related bankruptcies stand at 67 — though that last figure is a state proxy counting CRE-likely filings in the states where the metro's collateral sits rather than a metro-native count, and coverage widened to both court feeds on 2026-09-16, so counts before and after that date are not comparable.