Follow Your Heart Index city profile

Chico, California

A city-market profile built from 3 primary-city ZIP areas representing an estimated 117,007 residents.

City-market rollup: ZIPs assigned to this primary city. These figures are not official municipal-boundary population estimates.

Follow Your Heart Index | National #265 of 129162.5Official whole-life balance across all five components

Partner Availability | National #10988.7100.0% coverage

Settlement Feasibility | National #89447.6100.0% coverage

Economic Capacity | National #98461.0100.0% coverage

Relationship Environment | National #28640.1100.0% coverage

Opportunity Strength | National #63466.3100.0% coverage

Population by life stage

Under 1821,687 | 18.5%

18 to 2423,265 | 19.9%

25 to 3416,823 | 14.4%

35 to 5425,940 | 22.2%

55 to 6411,108 | 9.5%

65 and older18,184 | 15.5%

Marital landscape

Married38,719 | 38.5%

Never married45,958 | 45.7%

Divorced9,960 | 9.9%

Separated1,466 | 1.5%

Widowed4,424 | 4.4%

Race and broad ethnicity

Race and Hispanic ethnicity are separate Census concepts and may overlap. Values provide community context, not relationship quality.

White82,132 | 70.2%

Black or African American2,422 | 2.1%

American Indian and Alaska Native1,293 | 1.1%

Asian6,187 | 5.3%

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander453 | 0.4%

Hispanic or Latino22,977 | 19.6%

Ethnicity and heritage communities

These are the leading reported heritage communities among contributing ZIPs. The Census source calls them ancestry responses, and people may report more than one.

German16,744 reported responses
English14,755 reported responses
Irish13,670 reported responses
Italian7,669 reported responses
American4,361 reported responses

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Economic, housing and mobility context

Median household income$76,344

Employment rate61.0%

Typical home value$468,162

Typical rent$1,642

Mortgage access68.2

Migration opportunityNot published

Commute under 30 minutes82.7%

Poverty rate20.6%

ZIP areas in this city market

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ZIP	Heart Index	Partner	Settlement	Economic	Relationship	Opportunity
95926	60.5	94.6	42.5	54.8	37.8	61.5
95928	61.1	92.3	42.7	57.1	37.9	65.2
95973	65.9	78.6	57.7	71.3	44.6	72.4