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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 1151

    Livability

    66


  2. City | Population 998

    Livability

    66


  3. City | Population 833

    Livability

    66


  4. City | Population 794

    Livability

    66


  5. City | Population 500

    Livability

    66


  6. City | Population 498

    Livability

    66


  7. City | Population 485

    Livability

    66


  8. City | Population 442

    Livability

    66


  9. City | Population 385

    Livability

    66


  10. City | Population 226

    Livability

    66


  11. City | Population 196

    Livability

    66


  12. City | Population 166

    Livability

    66


  13. City | Population 266468

    Livability

    65


  14. City | Population 175389

    Livability

    65


  15. City | Population 159662

    Livability

    65


  16. City | Population 139873

    Livability

    65


  17. City | Population 133049

    Livability

    65


  18. City | Population 97943

    Livability

    65


  19. City | Population 76382

    Livability

    65


  20. City | Population 65652

    Livability

    65


  21. City | Population 65045

    Livability

    65


  22. City | Population 63432

    Livability

    65


  23. City | Population 63127

    Livability

    65


  24. City | Population 62713

    Livability

    65


  25. City | Population 54776

    Livability

    65