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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 25791

    Livability

    71


  2. City | Population 25597

    Livability

    71


  3. City | Population 25493

    Livability

    71


  4. City | Population 24598

    Livability

    71


  5. City | Population 22599

    Livability

    71


  6. City | Population 18533

    Livability

    71


  7. City | Population 17175

    Livability

    71


  8. City | Population 13997

    Livability

    71


  9. City | Population 12671

    Livability

    71


  10. City | Population 11989

    Livability

    71


  11. City | Population 11839

    Livability

    71


  12. City | Population 9847

    Livability

    71


  13. City | Population 8402

    Livability

    71


  14. City | Population 7535

    Livability

    71


  15. City | Population 7350

    Livability

    71


  16. City | Population 3449

    Livability

    71


  17. City | Population 3085

    Livability

    71


  18. City | Population 2421

    Livability

    71


  19. City | Population 2010

    Livability

    71


  20. City | Population 1912

    Livability

    71


  21. City | Population 1802

    Livability

    71


  22. City | Population 1517

    Livability

    71


  23. City | Population 1039

    Livability

    71


  24. City | Population 828

    Livability

    71


  25. City | Population 587

    Livability

    71