Independent economic analysis for governments, developers, and businesses in and around Chico, built on Butte County's own data and designed to hold up when a lender or a funder reviews it.
Butte County's economy centers on Chico, home to California State University, Chico, which anchors employment, research, and a large student economy, alongside health care, agriculture, especially almonds and rice, and the long rebuilding that has followed the 2018 Camp Fire in and around Paradise.
A housing or rebuilding project, an agricultural or processing venture, a university-adjacent development, or a health care expansion all turn on the same questions: what it returns to the county, and whether it pencils under Butte's real conditions.
We answer two questions with evidence. Economic impact: what a project brings to Butte County, in jobs, output, and tax revenue, with local leakage handled honestly. Feasibility and viability: whether it should move forward, measured with the same finance a lender runs, including debt-service coverage against the standard floor. We also handle fiscal impact for public budgets and grant applications, and market and cost-benefit analysis for a decision to open, expand, build, or buy.
And if a study is already in hand, we audit it. We inventory every claim, attach the evidence, and tell you plainly what survives review before you quote it or fund against it. More on reading a study before you rely on it.
National firms fly in, bill the travel, and price a county like Butte County out of the analysis it needs. We work across the interior West, we can be on-site, and we understand these economies from the inside. Every study is built on the region's measured record from the federal statistical agencies, so the numbers trace to a public source and survive scrutiny.
Have a project in Butte County? Tell us what you are weighing and where. We will lay out what it takes to answer it, and what it costs.
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