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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 12482

    Livability

    72


  2. City | Population 10142

    Livability

    72


  3. City | Population 8823

    Livability

    72


  4. City | Population 5902

    Livability

    72


  5. City | Population 4296

    Livability

    72


  6. City | Population 3382

    Livability

    72


  7. City | Population 2279

    Livability

    72


  8. City | Population 2217

    Livability

    72


  9. City | Population 1133

    Livability

    72


  10. City | Population 1087

    Livability

    72


  11. City | Population 1037

    Livability

    72


  12. City | Population 921

    Livability

    72


  13. City | Population 920

    Livability

    72


  14. City | Population 757

    Livability

    72


  15. City | Population 676

    Livability

    72


  16. City | Population 617

    Livability

    72


  17. City | Population 362

    Livability

    72


  18. City | Population 328

    Livability

    72


  19. City | Population 189

    Livability

    72


  20. City | Population 89

    Livability

    72


  21. City | Population 72359

    Livability

    71


  22. City | Population 64362

    Livability

    71


  23. City | Population 53264

    Livability

    71


  24. City | Population 38119

    Livability

    71


  25. City | Population 28736

    Livability

    71