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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 1359

    Livability

    81


  2. City | Population 563

    Livability

    81


  3. City | Population 515

    Livability

    81


  4. City | Population 429

    Livability

    81


  5. City | Population 401

    Livability

    81


  6. City | Population 386

    Livability

    81


  7. City | Population 328

    Livability

    81


  8. City | Population 216

    Livability

    81


  9. City | Population 114

    Livability

    81


  10. City | Population 49

    Livability

    81


  11. City | Population 26708

    Livability

    80


  12. City | Population 15222

    Livability

    80


  13. City | Population 8790

    Livability

    80


  14. City | Population 4198

    Livability

    80


  15. City | Population 4021

    Livability

    80


  16. City | Population 3625

    Livability

    80


  17. City | Population 1498

    Livability

    80


  18. City | Population 1096

    Livability

    80


  19. City | Population 1030

    Livability

    80


  20. City | Population 838

    Livability

    80


  21. City | Population 620

    Livability

    80


  22. City | Population 607

    Livability

    80


  23. City | Population 607

    Livability

    80


  24. City | Population 562

    Livability

    80


  25. City | Population 554

    Livability

    80