Chico, CA metro ZIP codes, ranked by the ZipVitals Score
Every Chico, CA metro ZIP code (ZCTA) with a ZipVitals Score, ranked within the metro — descriptive of documented conditions, never a verdict on the people who live there.
Data release 202618 ZIP codes in this ranking
- 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
How this ranking works
Ranks are each ZIP code’s position in the full national ZipVitals Score ranking, so the numbers jump — this metro holds 18 of the tens of thousands of scored US ZIP codes — and they never change with the sort direction; the rank a ZIP carries here is the rank it carries everywhere on this site. A ZIP whose data is too thin to score is held out entirely rather than filled from county or metro figures.
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A high score describes favorable documented conditions — never a claim about residents. Where ZIP codes score low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.