2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Chico, CA vs Durant, OK

#20 Best Green Cities

#43 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#281 2005 Best Places to Live

Chico is imperfect like most places, but it's still good. Any and all of it's issues proceed from it's main fault of growing increasingly liberal, which is to be  More

Chico's decent. I've been living here for ~5 years now. Eveen though my brother loves Chico and would like to stay, I would like to leave. I have no issues with crime or  More

I was born in Oroville and I grew up in Oroville and Biggs. I have heard all my life about crime in chico. Well I have lived in Chico near Chapman for almost 10 years  More

This is the backwoods! Accepted to SOSU on full scholarship. Withdrew from the school after one week. I thought I traveled the time machine and went back to the 1950's.  More