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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 50925

    Livability

    65


  2. City | Population 45403

    Livability

    65


  3. City | Population 45146

    Livability

    65


  4. City | Population 38509

    Livability

    65


  5. City | Population 37835

    Livability

    65


  6. City | Population 35809

    Livability

    65


  7. City | Population 27290

    Livability

    65


  8. City | Population 21608

    Livability

    65


  9. City | Population 20727

    Livability

    65


  10. City | Population 20628

    Livability

    65


  11. City | Population 19759

    Livability

    65


  12. City | Population 16377

    Livability

    65


  13. City | Population 16228

    Livability

    65


  14. City | Population 15323

    Livability

    65


  15. City | Population 10860

    Livability

    65


  16. City | Population 4893

    Livability

    65


  17. City | Population 3865

    Livability

    65


  18. City | Population 3855

    Livability

    65


  19. City | Population 3763

    Livability

    65


  20. City | Population 1790

    Livability

    65


  21. City | Population 906

    Livability

    65


  22. City | Population 583

    Livability

    65


  23. City | Population 466

    Livability

    65


  24. City | Population 288

    Livability

    65


  25. City | Population 189

    Livability

    65