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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 1589

    Livability

    68


  2. City | Population 1396

    Livability

    68


  3. City | Population 1306

    Livability

    68


  4. City | Population 1250

    Livability

    68


  5. City | Population 1199

    Livability

    68


  6. City | Population 1126

    Livability

    68


  7. City | Population 978

    Livability

    68


  8. City | Population 921

    Livability

    68


  9. City | Population 662

    Livability

    68


  10. City | Population 566

    Livability

    68


  11. City | Population 406

    Livability

    68


  12. City | Population 183

    Livability

    68


  13. City | Population 106

    Livability

    68


  14. City | Population 61

    Livability

    68


  15. City | Population 209478

    Livability

    67


  16. City | Population 165355

    Livability

    67


  17. City | Population 115669

    Livability

    67


  18. City | Population 111427

    Livability

    67


  19. City | Population 100108

    Livability

    67


  20. City | Population 94709

    Livability

    67


  21. City | Population 72335

    Livability

    67


  22. City | Population 72056

    Livability

    67


  23. City | Population 61910

    Livability

    67


  24. City | Population 57615

    Livability

    67


  25. City | Population 54859

    Livability

    67