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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
- 7,94995942in Forest Ranch · 2,089 residents56.33
- 10,68195973in Chico · 39,031 residents54.02
- 15,04895938in Durham · 3,943 residents50.87
- 18,18095974in Richvale · 98 residents48.62
- 19,44295926in Chico · 40,567 residents47.61
- 19,59495969in Paradise · 8,339 residents47.47
- 20,28895917in Biggs · 3,752 residents46.91
- 20,38695928in Chico · 37,409 residents46.82
- 21,61495954in Magalia · 8,165 residents45.74
- 24,04195914in Bangor · 409 residents43.37
- 24,24695966in Oroville · 28,503 residents43.14
- 25,38195948in Gridley · 11,200 residents41.81
- 27,31595978in Stirling City · 142 residents39.12
- 28,07395965in Oroville · 21,181 residents37.89
- 28,56895916in Berry Creek · 667 residents36.92
- 29,89095941in Forbestown · 106 residents33.53
- 30,09995930in Clipper Mills · 463 residents32.79
- 31,20495968in 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.