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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 583

    Livability

    71


  2. City | Population 559

    Livability

    71


  3. City | Population 538

    Livability

    71


  4. City | Population 372

    Livability

    71


  5. City | Population 356

    Livability

    71


  6. City | Population 271

    Livability

    71


  7. City | Population 210

    Livability

    71


  8. City | Population 167

    Livability

    71


  9. City | Population 83

    Livability

    71


  10. City | Population 62

    Livability

    71


  11. City | Population 173580

    Livability

    70


  12. City | Population 156904

    Livability

    70


  13. City | Population 131066

    Livability

    70


  14. City | Population 106666

    Livability

    70


  15. City | Population 93609

    Livability

    70


  16. City | Population 76276

    Livability

    70


  17. City | Population 55893

    Livability

    70


  18. City | Population 47326

    Livability

    70


  19. City | Population 36162

    Livability

    70


  20. City | Population 33416

    Livability

    70


  21. City | Population 26109

    Livability

    70


  22. City | Population 24237

    Livability

    70


  23. City | Population 12753

    Livability

    70


  24. City | Population 12117

    Livability

    70


  25. City | Population 6686

    Livability

    70