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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 925

    Livability

    63


  2. City | Population 923

    Livability

    63


  3. City | Population 831

    Livability

    63


  4. City | Population 800

    Livability

    63


  5. City | Population 711

    Livability

    63


  6. City | Population 253

    Livability

    63


  7. City | Population 219

    Livability

    63


  8. City | Population 186

    Livability

    63


  9. City | Population 200606

    Livability

    62


  10. City | Population 168503

    Livability

    62


  11. City | Population 139866

    Livability

    62


  12. City | Population 113198

    Livability

    62


  13. City | Population 112901

    Livability

    62


  14. City | Population 95103

    Livability

    62


  15. City | Population 92517

    Livability

    62


  16. City | Population 91325

    Livability

    62


  17. City | Population 89027

    Livability

    62


  18. City | Population 63099

    Livability

    62


  19. City | Population 58939

    Livability

    62


  20. City | Population 54970

    Livability

    62


  21. City | Population 53616

    Livability

    62


  22. City | Population 52124

    Livability

    62


  23. City | Population 48974

    Livability

    62


  24. City | Population 48792

    Livability

    62


  25. City | Population 45599

    Livability

    62