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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 1401932

    Livability

    63


  2. City | Population 333499

    Livability

    63


  3. City | Population 233083

    Livability

    63


  4. City | Population 207568

    Livability

    63


  5. City | Population 175679

    Livability

    63


  6. City | Population 156550

    Livability

    63


  7. City | Population 114101

    Livability

    63


  8. City | Population 105886

    Livability

    63


  9. City | Population 88806

    Livability

    63


  10. City | Population 87735

    Livability

    63


  11. City | Population 87370

    Livability

    63


  12. City | Population 82911

    Livability

    63


  13. City | Population 79298

    Livability

    63


  14. City | Population 77007

    Livability

    63


  15. City | Population 60896

    Livability

    63


  16. City | Population 59562

    Livability

    63


  17. City | Population 59044

    Livability

    63


  18. City | Population 58694

    Livability

    63


  19. City | Population 49842

    Livability

    63


  20. City | Population 43876

    Livability

    63


  21. City | Population 40669

    Livability

    63


  22. City | Population 38865

    Livability

    63


  23. City | Population 36274

    Livability

    63


  24. City | Population 36025

    Livability

    63


  25. City | Population 35952

    Livability

    63