What district
am I in?
Chico elects its seven council members by district. Type your street address and we'll check it against the city's own district map — nothing is saved, and it never leaves your browser except to look up the coordinates.
Street number and street name is enough. No apartment number needed.
The seven districts
Drawn from the city's published boundary file — these are the real lines, not an illustration. Districts 2, 4, 6 are the seats on the ballot this November.
Two things on this map surprise people, and both are really in the city's file. The white gaps inside the city are unincorporated Butte County — county islands Chico has grown around, which are not in any council district. And the small shape off on its own to the southwest is part of District 5: annexed land that isn't attached to the rest of the district.
Who represents each district
Council members and terms as published in the city's district file. Districts on the ballot this November show the two candidates running.
Why your district matters
You vote for one seat, not seven
Since 2022 Chico has elected council members by district. On your ballot you'll see only the candidates running in your district — so if you live in District 3, you will not vote on the District 4 race at all, no matter how much you care about it.
One council member is yours
Every council member votes on everything citywide, but your district's member is the one who answers to you specifically. That's who to email about a pothole, a project, or a vote you disagreed with.
Plenty of "Chico" isn't in the city
A Chico mailing address doesn't mean you live inside the city limits. Big stretches of Nord Avenue, Chico Canyon and the area around the airport are unincorporated Butte County — you vote for a county supervisor instead, and not for city council at all.
Where this comes from, and what it can get wrong
Boundaries from the City of Chico GIS "Chico Voting Districts" layer, retrieved 25 August 2026. That is the city's own published file — the same data behind the city's official lookup tool — used exactly as published, with no simplification and no redrawing. District lines were adopted by the City Council in 2022.
Addresses are turned into coordinates by the US Census Geocoder, then tested against those boundaries. Two things that means in practice:
- Right on a district line, treat this as a guess. The Census locates an address by interpolating along a street's address range, not by finding your parcel. If your home sits within a house or two of a boundary, the point can land on the wrong side. The city's tool is the tiebreaker.
- Districts stop at the city limits. If your address is outside them we say so plainly rather than naming the nearest district — an unincorporated address has no council district, and telling you otherwise would be simply wrong.
- Boundaries change. Lines are redrawn after each census. If you're reading this well after 25 August 2026, check against the city before relying on it.
For anything official — registration, your actual ballot, a boundary dispute — the city and county are the authority, not us.
Boundary file: Chico Voting Districts feature layer (City of Chico GIS, retrieved 25 August 2026) · City of Chico GIS · our copy: chico-districts.geojson
Now go tell them what to ask
Three of these seats are up this November, and each pair of candidates gets an hour-long debate. The questions come from Chico.
Back to the question board