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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 42641

    Livability

    69


  2. City | Population 40268

    Livability

    69


  3. City | Population 30942

    Livability

    69


  4. City | Population 27542

    Livability

    69


  5. City | Population 21783

    Livability

    69


  6. City | Population 20260

    Livability

    69


  7. City | Population 19581

    Livability

    69


  8. City | Population 13646

    Livability

    69


  9. City | Population 10505

    Livability

    69


  10. City | Population 7678

    Livability

    69


  11. City | Population 7439

    Livability

    69


  12. City | Population 6905

    Livability

    69


  13. City | Population 3029

    Livability

    69


  14. City | Population 2605

    Livability

    69


  15. City | Population 1443

    Livability

    69


  16. City | Population 1351

    Livability

    69


  17. City | Population 1175

    Livability

    69


  18. City | Population 1143

    Livability

    69


  19. City | Population 832

    Livability

    69


  20. City | Population 372

    Livability

    69


  21. City | Population 313

    Livability

    69


  22. City | Population 188

    Livability

    69


  23. City | Population 205034

    Livability

    68


  24. City | Population 151115

    Livability

    68


  25. City | Population 121861

    Livability

    68