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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 49544

    Livability

    67


  2. City | Population 34077

    Livability

    67


  3. City | Population 15216

    Livability

    67


  4. City | Population 7551

    Livability

    67


  5. City | Population 4408

    Livability

    67


  6. City | Population 4283

    Livability

    67


  7. City | Population 2677

    Livability

    67


  8. City | Population 2668

    Livability

    67


  9. City | Population 2523

    Livability

    67


  10. City | Population 1644

    Livability

    67


  11. City | Population 1546

    Livability

    67


  12. City | Population 1539

    Livability

    67


  13. City | Population 1424

    Livability

    67


  14. City | Population 1165

    Livability

    67


  15. City | Population 1063

    Livability

    67


  16. City | Population 928

    Livability

    67


  17. City | Population 673

    Livability

    67


  18. City | Population 303

    Livability

    67


  19. City | Population 244

    Livability

    67


  20. City | Population 76

    Livability

    67


  21. City | Population 44

    Livability

    67


  22. City | Population 522277

    Livability

    66


  23. City | Population 375699

    Livability

    66


  24. City | Population 323935

    Livability

    66


  25. City | Population 208943

    Livability

    66