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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 152494

    Livability

    66


  2. City | Population 112230

    Livability

    66


  3. City | Population 102873

    Livability

    66


  4. City | Population 84069

    Livability

    66


  5. City | Population 43511

    Livability

    66


  6. City | Population 31002

    Livability

    66


  7. City | Population 30258

    Livability

    66


  8. City | Population 29197

    Livability

    66


  9. City | Population 28430

    Livability

    66


  10. City | Population 26543

    Livability

    66


  11. City | Population 24585

    Livability

    66


  12. City | Population 15598

    Livability

    66


  13. City | Population 14411

    Livability

    66


  14. City | Population 13550

    Livability

    66


  15. City | Population 10265

    Livability

    66


  16. City | Population 8651

    Livability

    66


  17. City | Population 8618

    Livability

    66


  18. City | Population 5307

    Livability

    66


  19. City | Population 5272

    Livability

    66


  20. City | Population 4962

    Livability

    66


  21. City | Population 3796

    Livability

    66


  22. City | Population 3719

    Livability

    66


  23. City | Population 3284

    Livability

    66


  24. City | Population 1730

    Livability

    66


  25. City | Population 1669

    Livability

    66