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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 2570

    Livability

    74


  2. City | Population 2461

    Livability

    74


  3. City | Population 2116

    Livability

    74


  4. City | Population 981

    Livability

    74


  5. City | Population 894

    Livability

    74


  6. City | Population 668

    Livability

    74


  7. City | Population 632

    Livability

    74


  8. City | Population 206

    Livability

    74


  9. City | Population 181

    Livability

    74


  10. City | Population 59797

    Livability

    73


  11. City | Population 39934

    Livability

    73


  12. City | Population 21783

    Livability

    73


  13. City | Population 13834

    Livability

    73


  14. City | Population 11119

    Livability

    73


  15. City | Population 9381

    Livability

    73


  16. City | Population 9086

    Livability

    73


  17. City | Population 7370

    Livability

    73


  18. City | Population 6980

    Livability

    73


  19. City | Population 6044

    Livability

    73


  20. City | Population 5131

    Livability

    73


  21. City | Population 3783

    Livability

    73


  22. City | Population 3747

    Livability

    73


  23. City | Population 3390

    Livability

    73


  24. City | Population 2994

    Livability

    73


  25. City | Population 2687

    Livability

    73