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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 2345

    Livability

    62


  2. City | Population 1167

    Livability

    62


  3. City | Population 1058

    Livability

    62


  4. City | Population 1007

    Livability

    62


  5. City | Population 962

    Livability

    62


  6. City | Population 867

    Livability

    62


  7. City | Population 727

    Livability

    62


  8. City | Population 473

    Livability

    62


  9. City | Population 463

    Livability

    62


  10. City | Population 495011

    Livability

    61


  11. City | Population 468883

    Livability

    61


  12. City | Population 265502

    Livability

    61


  13. City | Population 104275

    Livability

    61


  14. City | Population 104035

    Livability

    61


  15. City | Population 97301

    Livability

    61


  16. City | Population 86523

    Livability

    61


  17. City | Population 77529

    Livability

    61


  18. City | Population 70492

    Livability

    61


  19. City | Population 67700

    Livability

    61


  20. City | Population 52826

    Livability

    61


  21. City | Population 48403

    Livability

    61


  22. City | Population 44417

    Livability

    61


  23. City | Population 32358

    Livability

    61


  24. City | Population 30922

    Livability

    61


  25. City | Population 30839

    Livability

    61