Chico, California

Chico population, 2020 to 2024

Chico lost 378 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +765. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 176th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Chico is 2.8 times that size.

Chico covers 34.37 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 2,994 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Chico is less dense than the typical town.

What county Chico is in

All of Chico's residents live in Butte County, which had 208,334 residents in 2024. Chico holds 49.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chico

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Chico by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 95926, 95928, 95929, 95973. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Chico is

The Census internal point of Chico is at 39.759000, -121.817700. Sacramento, the capital, is 83.5 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Roseville, CA (163,304 people), 73.3 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 72 m (236 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Chico

At 39.76° N, Chico gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Chico daylight page.

Places near Chico

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Paradise, 11.2 miles away, with 9,114 people.