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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 6585

    Livability

    70


  2. City | Population 6364

    Livability

    70


  3. City | Population 5821

    Livability

    70


  4. City | Population 3240

    Livability

    70


  5. City | Population 2577

    Livability

    70


  6. City | Population 2476

    Livability

    70


  7. City | Population 2029

    Livability

    70


  8. City | Population 2019

    Livability

    70


  9. City | Population 1623

    Livability

    70


  10. City | Population 1568

    Livability

    70


  11. City | Population 1376

    Livability

    70


  12. City | Population 1278

    Livability

    70


  13. City | Population 930

    Livability

    70


  14. City | Population 812

    Livability

    70


  15. City | Population 437

    Livability

    70


  16. City | Population 418

    Livability

    70


  17. City | Population 302

    Livability

    70


  18. City | Population 268

    Livability

    70


  19. City | Population 264

    Livability

    70


  20. City | Population 214

    Livability

    70


  21. City | Population 88515

    Livability

    69


  22. City | Population 88291

    Livability

    69


  23. City | Population 66388

    Livability

    69


  24. City | Population 65006

    Livability

    69


  25. City | Population 47975

    Livability

    69