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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 42694

    Livability

    62


  2. City | Population 40704

    Livability

    62


  3. City | Population 26767

    Livability

    62


  4. City | Population 21814

    Livability

    62


  5. City | Population 19364

    Livability

    62


  6. City | Population 18921

    Livability

    62


  7. City | Population 16292

    Livability

    62


  8. City | Population 15946

    Livability

    62


  9. City | Population 13324

    Livability

    62


  10. City | Population 12932

    Livability

    62


  11. City | Population 10411

    Livability

    62


  12. City | Population 9771

    Livability

    62


  13. City | Population 7938

    Livability

    62


  14. City | Population 7863

    Livability

    62


  15. City | Population 7298

    Livability

    62


  16. City | Population 5092

    Livability

    62


  17. City | Population 4712

    Livability

    62


  18. City | Population 4694

    Livability

    62


  19. City | Population 4464

    Livability

    62


  20. City | Population 3810

    Livability

    62


  21. City | Population 3799

    Livability

    62


  22. City | Population 3685

    Livability

    62


  23. City | Population 3424

    Livability

    62


  24. City | Population 2692

    Livability

    62


  25. City | Population 2538

    Livability

    62