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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 17445

    Livability

    64


  2. City | Population 15567

    Livability

    64


  3. City | Population 15367

    Livability

    64


  4. City | Population 13946

    Livability

    64


  5. City | Population 13538

    Livability

    64


  6. City | Population 12282

    Livability

    64


  7. City | Population 11802

    Livability

    64


  8. City | Population 10592

    Livability

    64


  9. City | Population 7509

    Livability

    64


  10. City | Population 7185

    Livability

    64


  11. City | Population 7132

    Livability

    64


  12. City | Population 6753

    Livability

    64


  13. City | Population 5734

    Livability

    64


  14. City | Population 4855

    Livability

    64


  15. City | Population 2106

    Livability

    64


  16. City | Population 2100

    Livability

    64


  17. City | Population 1799

    Livability

    64


  18. City | Population 1348

    Livability

    64


  19. City | Population 1288

    Livability

    64


  20. City | Population 782

    Livability

    64


  21. City | Population 682

    Livability

    64


  22. City | Population 294

    Livability

    64


  23. City | Population 272

    Livability

    64


  24. City | Population 72

    Livability

    64


  25. City | Population 3959657

    Livability

    63