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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 2393

    Livability

    73


  2. City | Population 2286

    Livability

    73


  3. City | Population 2272

    Livability

    73


  4. City | Population 1340

    Livability

    73


  5. City | Population 1241

    Livability

    73


  6. City | Population 1141

    Livability

    73


  7. City | Population 1108

    Livability

    73


  8. City | Population 724

    Livability

    73


  9. City | Population 688

    Livability

    73


  10. City | Population 537

    Livability

    73


  11. City | Population 508

    Livability

    73


  12. City | Population 441

    Livability

    73


  13. City | Population 290

    Livability

    73


  14. City | Population 201

    Livability

    73


  15. City | Population 199

    Livability

    73


  16. City | Population 164

    Livability

    73


  17. City | Population 36

    Livability

    73


  18. City | Population 62838

    Livability

    72


  19. City | Population 54037

    Livability

    72


  20. City | Population 43898

    Livability

    72


  21. City | Population 26009

    Livability

    72


  22. City | Population 21005

    Livability

    72


  23. City | Population 16612

    Livability

    72


  24. City | Population 14658

    Livability

    72


  25. City | Population 14649

    Livability

    72