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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 30288

    Livability

    63


  2. City | Population 29379

    Livability

    63


  3. City | Population 25388

    Livability

    63


  4. City | Population 23812

    Livability

    63


  5. City | Population 19650

    Livability

    63


  6. City | Population 13370

    Livability

    63


  7. City | Population 12706

    Livability

    63


  8. City | Population 11074

    Livability

    63


  9. City | Population 9765

    Livability

    63


  10. City | Population 9059

    Livability

    63


  11. City | Population 8091

    Livability

    63


  12. City | Population 7010

    Livability

    63


  13. City | Population 5384

    Livability

    63


  14. City | Population 4401

    Livability

    63


  15. City | Population 3865

    Livability

    63


  16. City | Population 3460

    Livability

    63


  17. City | Population 3094

    Livability

    63


  18. City | Population 2982

    Livability

    63


  19. City | Population 2961

    Livability

    63


  20. City | Population 2692

    Livability

    63


  21. City | Population 2553

    Livability

    63


  22. City | Population 1500

    Livability

    63


  23. City | Population 1351

    Livability

    63


  24. City | Population 1300

    Livability

    63


  25. City | Population 1252

    Livability

    63