2026 Compare Cities Rankings:
Chico, CA vs Fond du Lac, WI

#20 Best Green Cities

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

#281 2005 Best Places to Live

#18 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Small Towns)

#18 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Small Towns)

#30 Emerging Metropolitan Areas

#160 Best Green Cities

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

i was canoeing and i think my child fell into the lake but im not really sure, big splash, coulda been a rock. shops are very  More

if you are poor white trash or from the inner city with a family member incarcerated, then fond du lac is for you. There is no culture here but drinking yourself stupid  More

Fond du Lac County is an excellent place to live and raise a family especially if you are looking for a smaller unsophisicated city and great county to live in. If  More