Chico, CA
Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 17020 · 39.67, -121.60
No rule fired for Chico, CA this run, against no published headline value. No level in the rule table was crossed.
- 38th pct · 242nd of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500
Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.
An estimate. BLS publishes no metro employment total at the aggregation levels this app reads, so this is the sum of the member counties it does publish. The arithmetic is printed below.
- US metro areas: not published this period
Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- US metro areas: not published this period
Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.
- US metro areas: not published this period
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
- US metro areas: not published this period
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Occupation mix #
The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Chico, CA, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31-1120 | Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 5,940 | $35,580 | 2.74 |
| 35-3023 | Fast Food and Counter Workers | 2,630 | $39,470 | 1.35 |
| 29-1141 | Registered Nurses | 2,170 | $134,900 | 1.28 |
| 41-2011 | Cashiers | 2,090 | $39,000 | 1.35 |
| 41-2031 | Retail Salespersons | 2,010 | $41,260 | 1.02 |
| 43-9061 | Office Clerks, General | 1,700 | $45,690 | 1.37 |
| 11-1021 | General and Operations Managers | 1,260 | $117,540 | 0.71 |
| 25-9045 | Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | 1,220 | $45,160 | 1.71 |
| 25-2021 | Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education | 1,120 | $87,890 | 1.60 |
| 53-7065 | Stockers and Order Fillers | 1,040 | $40,400 | 0.73 |
| 35-3031 | Waiters and Waitresses | 990 | $39,330 | 0.87 |
| 53-7062 | Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 990 | $42,390 | 0.67 |
| 37-2011 | Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 900 | $42,590 | 0.81 |
| 43-6014 | Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 810 | $51,700 | 0.94 |
| 31-1131 | Nursing Assistants | 790 | $47,040 | 1.09 |
| 31-9092 | Medical Assistants | 770 | $49,340 | 1.87 |
| 43-3031 | Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 730 | $55,010 | 1.05 |
| 49-9071 | Maintenance and Repair Workers, General | 720 | $56,820 | 0.94 |
| 37-3011 | Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers | 710 | $46,300 | 1.48 |
| 35-1012 | First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 700 | $50,850 | 1.14 |
| 41-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers | 660 | $53,780 | 1.16 |
| 43-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 660 | $72,670 | 0.91 |
| 53-3032 | Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 650 | $57,110 | 0.63 |
| 43-6013 | Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 630 | $49,920 | 1.31 |
| 35-2014 | Cooks, Restaurant | 600 | $40,100 | 0.85 |
| 43-4051 | Customer Service Representatives | 600 | $48,560 | 0.46 |
| 35-2011 | Cooks, Fast Food | 580 | $40,300 | 1.81 |
| 35-2021 | Food Preparation Workers | 480 | $39,010 | 1.06 |
| 47-2061 | Construction Laborers | 480 | $59,560 | 0.87 |
| 53-3033 | Light Truck Drivers | 480 | $49,470 | 0.97 |
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31-0000 | Healthcare Support Occupations | 8,650 | $40,210 | 2.18 |
| 43-0000 | Office and Administrative Support Occupations | 8,420 | $52,200 | 0.94 |
| 35-0000 | Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations | 7,910 | $40,430 | 1.15 |
| 41-0000 | Sales and Related Occupations | 6,790 | $49,220 | 1.01 |
| 25-0000 | Educational Instruction and Library Occupations | 6,510 | $79,340 | 1.42 |
| 29-0000 | Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations | 5,690 | $120,340 | 1.15 |
| 53-0000 | Transportation and Material Moving Occupations | 4,960 | $49,790 | 0.72 |
| 11-0000 | Management Occupations | 4,560 | $124,690 | 0.81 |
| 13-0000 | Business and Financial Operations Occupations | 3,560 | $86,100 | 0.67 |
| 47-0000 | Construction and Extraction Occupations | 3,040 | $69,890 | 0.94 |
| 49-0000 | Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations | 2,710 | $68,050 | 0.89 |
| 51-0000 | Production Occupations | 2,500 | $53,060 | 0.58 |
| 37-0000 | Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations | 2,400 | $45,940 | 1.05 |
| 21-0000 | Community and Social Service Occupations | 2,280 | $66,900 | 1.70 |
| 39-0000 | Personal Care and Service Occupations | 2,160 | $41,630 | 1.32 |
| 33-0000 | Protective Service Occupations | 1,570 | $67,700 | 0.83 |
| 15-0000 | Computer and Mathematical Occupations | 1,080 | $94,410 | 0.41 |
| 19-0000 | Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations | 960 | $86,280 | 1.29 |
| 45-0000 | Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations | 890 | $41,750 | 4.05 |
| 27-0000 | Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations | 670 | $64,630 | 0.65 |
| 17-0000 | Architecture and Engineering Occupations | 610 | $108,940 | 0.47 |
| 23-0000 | Legal Occupations | 300 | $107,090 | 0.45 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.
Housing #
Zillow Home Value Index and Observed Rent Index, metro files, joined by the RegionID recorded in the place manifest. Both are smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.
Employment, rolled up from member counties #
- jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the member counties; the offline manifest does not yet list this metro's counties, so there is nothing to sum.
The place manifest names 0 member counties for this metro, fewer than the 5 a cohort needs before a percentile means anything, so no within-metro position is offered for its counties. The positions above are against the other 392 metropolitan areas, which is a cohort that does not depend on the county pull.
There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.
National indicator context #
None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
| Indicator | Latest | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage | 16.50 | ft | ok |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) | 5,170.00 | ft³/s | ok |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full | 71.30 | % | ok |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly | 258,700.00 | trucks | ok |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual | 10,513,167.00 | TEU | watch |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports | 6.00 | ships | ok |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate | 6,830.00 | $ per 40 ft box | watch |
| US diesel retail price | not published | $ per gallon | no data |
| WTI crude oil, spot | 96.16 | $ per barrel | watch |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate | 7.28 | % | watch |
| Housing starts, annual rate | 1,275.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Building permits, annual rate | 1,403.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Case-Shiller US home price index | 337.31 | index, Jan 2000 = 100 | ok |
| Unemployment rate | 4.10 | % | ok |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly | -88,576.00 | $ millions | ok |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly | 646,347.00 | $ millions | ok |
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.
What changed #
Chico, CA: nothing crossed a line this run
Nothing crossed a line in this period.
The full Chico, CA brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.
Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.