No sidewalk riding district Eviction Risk: High , Chico

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Against Butte County at 49.5%, 64% of renters here are cost-burdened.

It sits 2.2 points above the Butte County average of 6.6. Annualized rent equals 35% of average household income of $42,396, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. The poverty rate is 33%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

This is renter territory: 74% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.6/10. Running hot, housing-court posture reads 8.4/10.

At $1,246 a month, rents run 16% under what the rest of Chico commands. The filing record is not thin: 23 evictions over 1 years of observation.

The worst year on record was 2014, when 2.6% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 2.6% of renter households face a filing.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.