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Best Cities to Live in California

Best places to live rankings for California are based on livability scores that range from 0 to 100.  These scores are derived from the city’s economics, job opportunity, diversity, wealth inequality, cost of living, education and crime data from the U.S. Census, FBI and other sources including City Stats own gathered data.  There is also a happiness rating we use that comes from a machine learning algorithm that was developed to determine how happy people in each city this is also a weighted factor in the our goal to find the best places in America.

  1. City | Population 441

    Livability

    85


  2. City | Population 273

    Livability

    85


  3. City | Population 188

    Livability

    85


  4. City | Population 37

    Livability

    85


  5. City | Population 165

    Livability

    84


  6. City | Population 878

    Livability

    83


  7. City | Population 651

    Livability

    83


  8. City | Population 213

    Livability

    83


  9. City | Population 105

    Livability

    83


  10. City | Population 76

    Livability

    83


  11. City | Population 7174

    Livability

    82


  12. City | Population 1943

    Livability

    82


  13. City | Population 1591

    Livability

    82


  14. City | Population 839

    Livability

    82


  15. City | Population 740

    Livability

    82


  16. City | Population 307

    Livability

    82


  17. City | Population 234

    Livability

    82


  18. City | Population 201

    Livability

    82


  19. City | Population 148

    Livability

    82


  20. City | Population 114

    Livability

    82


  21. City | Population 3796

    Livability

    81


  22. City | Population 3218

    Livability

    81


  23. City | Population 2611

    Livability

    81


  24. City | Population 2224

    Livability

    81


  25. City | Population 1395

    Livability

    81