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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 349668

    Livability

    64


  2. City | Population 211336

    Livability

    64


  3. City | Population 200372

    Livability

    64


  4. City | Population 181038

    Livability

    64


  5. City | Population 141246

    Livability

    64


  6. City | Population 128481

    Livability

    64


  7. City | Population 126199

    Livability

    64


  8. City | Population 113670

    Livability

    64


  9. City | Population 103285

    Livability

    64


  10. City | Population 91998

    Livability

    64


  11. City | Population 91327

    Livability

    64


  12. City | Population 85217

    Livability

    64


  13. City | Population 80140

    Livability

    64


  14. City | Population 71022

    Livability

    64


  15. City | Population 71012

    Livability

    64


  16. City | Population 64037

    Livability

    64


  17. City | Population 46939

    Livability

    64


  18. City | Population 33007

    Livability

    64


  19. City | Population 30790

    Livability

    64


  20. City | Population 24078

    Livability

    64


  21. City | Population 24077

    Livability

    64


  22. City | Population 23620

    Livability

    64


  23. City | Population 22215

    Livability

    64


  24. City | Population 19040

    Livability

    64


  25. City | Population 18039

    Livability

    64