For businesses in Chico, CA, AnSer offers live answering and message taking through its nationwide service, including after-hours and overflow call handling. Use the local context below when discussing your hours, call instructions and language requirements with our team.
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Chico city is a Census place in CA. Its published county relationships are Butte County, California. Use the service address to confirm county-based assignments; a postal city name alone does not establish a Census boundary.
Geography source: 2025 Census county relationships; 2025 Gazetteer. These boundaries do not establish an AnSer office or your business’s service territory.
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Chico city has an estimated 97,644 residents aged five and over in the 2020–2024 ACS. The table below breaks down home-language categories for this place; it does not measure your business’s callers.
Reported local estimates to compare with your caller records in Chico: Spanish: 11,282 ±1,040; Other Asian and Pacific Island languages: 1,591 ±420; Other Indo-European languages: 901 ±259. These are the largest point estimates among non-English home-language categories whose estimates exceed their margins of error. Differences have not been tested for statistical significance. Identify the actual caller language within grouped categories before discussing coverage.
| Language spoken at home | Estimated residents | Margin of error (±) |
|---|---|---|
| All residents aged 5 and over | 97,644 | 413 |
| Speak only English | 80,561 | 1,497 |
| Spanish | 11,282 | 1,040 |
| French, Haitian, or Cajun | 192 | 153 |
| German or other West Germanic languages | 189 | 100 |
| Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages | 397 | 215 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 901 | 259 |
| Korean | 131 | 112 |
| Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) | 843 | 313 |
| Vietnamese | 526 | 336 |
| Tagalog (including Filipino) | 277 | 182 |
| Other Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,591 | 420 |
| Arabic | 619 | 422 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 135 | 115 |
Estimates have uncertainty; home language does not establish preferred call language or provider capabilities. Read the data definitions, limitations and planning method.
Source: Census table C16001 for Chico.
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