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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 105483

    Livability

    68


  2. City | Population 87061

    Livability

    68


  3. City | Population 82289

    Livability

    68


  4. City | Population 77073

    Livability

    68


  5. City | Population 76222

    Livability

    68


  6. City | Population 67543

    Livability

    68


  7. City | Population 64785

    Livability

    68


  8. City | Population 54415

    Livability

    68


  9. City | Population 47474

    Livability

    68


  10. City | Population 34757

    Livability

    68


  11. City | Population 33021

    Livability

    68


  12. City | Population 25675

    Livability

    68


  13. City | Population 22560

    Livability

    68


  14. City | Population 21543

    Livability

    68


  15. City | Population 21393

    Livability

    68


  16. City | Population 15233

    Livability

    68


  17. City | Population 13312

    Livability

    68


  18. City | Population 6681

    Livability

    68


  19. City | Population 5229

    Livability

    68


  20. City | Population 3428

    Livability

    68


  21. City | Population 3424

    Livability

    68


  22. City | Population 2614

    Livability

    68


  23. City | Population 2397

    Livability

    68


  24. City | Population 1895

    Livability

    68


  25. City | Population 1804

    Livability

    68