How the Chico, CA metro's ZIP codes measure up on health
The ZipVitals Score across the Chico, CA metro area — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up by resident population.
Data release 202618 of 18 ZIP codes scored · 0.21M residents represented
Score snapshot
People & national context
The Chico, CA metro's ZIP codes, ranked
Highest-scoring
Top 18 of 18- 7,94895942in Forest Ranch · 2,089 residents56.32
- 10,68395973in Chico · 39,031 residents54.01
- 15,05495938in Durham · 3,943 residents50.86
- 18,17195974in Richvale · 98 residents48.61
- 19,43795926in Chico · 40,567 residents47.60
- 19,58495969in Paradise · 8,339 residents47.47
- 20,28095917in Biggs · 3,752 residents46.90
- 20,38795928in Chico · 37,409 residents46.81
- 21,61295954in Magalia · 8,165 residents45.74
- 24,04095914in Bangor · 409 residents43.37
- 24,25095966in Oroville · 28,503 residents43.13
- 25,39395948in Gridley · 11,200 residents41.79
- 27,31495978in Stirling City · 142 residents39.12
- 28,07995965in Oroville · 21,181 residents37.89
- 28,57395916in Berry Creek · 667 residents36.92
- 29,89395941in Forbestown · 106 residents33.52
- 30,09895930in Clipper Mills · 463 residents32.79
- 31,20195968in Palermo · 1,364 residents27.31
Lowest-scoring
Bottom 18 of 18- 31,20195968in Palermo · 1,364 residents27.31
- 30,09895930in Clipper Mills · 463 residents32.79
- 29,89395941in Forbestown · 106 residents33.52
- 28,57395916in Berry Creek · 667 residents36.92
- 28,07995965in Oroville · 21,181 residents37.89
- 27,31495978in Stirling City · 142 residents39.12
- 25,39395948in Gridley · 11,200 residents41.79
- 24,25095966in Oroville · 28,503 residents43.13
- 24,04095914in Bangor · 409 residents43.37
- 21,61295954in Magalia · 8,165 residents45.74
- 20,38795928in Chico · 37,409 residents46.81
- 20,28095917in Biggs · 3,752 residents46.90
- 19,58495969in Paradise · 8,339 residents47.47
- 19,43795926in Chico · 40,567 residents47.60
- 18,17195974in Richvale · 98 residents48.61
- 15,05495938in Durham · 3,943 residents50.86
- 10,68395973in Chico · 39,031 residents54.01
- 7,94895942in Forest Ranch · 2,089 residents56.32
What the distribution shows
Across the Chico, CA metro’s 18 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 18 of them carry enough measured coverage across all nine health domains to enter the population-weighted composite above; the rest are held out rather than filled from a coarser geography.
Only 18 of the Chico, CA metro's ZIP codes can be compared with each other across the nine scoring domains — too few to divide into fifths without a single ZIP code swinging the result — so the domain-by-domain breakdown that larger metro pages carry is left out here rather than shown on a handful of ZIP codes.
Assembled from the same ZIP-level data as every per-ZIP page. Read the full method →
Why this matters
The ZipVitals Score combines nine domains of health — from chronic disease and preventive care to environmental hazard, social need, and healthcare access — into one 0–100 index for each ZIP code, computed the same way everywhere from public federal and academic data. The Chico, CA figures on this page are population-weighted rollups of those per-ZIP scores, so they describe the metro's residents rather than a coarser geography relabeled as the metro.
A high score describes favorable documented conditions; it is not a claim about individual residents, and it does not capture everything that shapes a community's health. Where a ZIP code scores low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.