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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 389

    Livability

    80


  2. City | Population 331

    Livability

    80


  3. City | Population 285

    Livability

    80


  4. City | Population 186

    Livability

    80


  5. City | Population 101

    Livability

    80


  6. City | Population 46

    Livability

    80


  7. City | Population 11761

    Livability

    79


  8. City | Population 11735

    Livability

    79


  9. City | Population 4418

    Livability

    79


  10. City | Population 3667

    Livability

    79


  11. City | Population 3636

    Livability

    79


  12. City | Population 3304

    Livability

    79


  13. City | Population 2915

    Livability

    79


  14. City | Population 2773

    Livability

    79


  15. City | Population 2166

    Livability

    79


  16. City | Population 1726

    Livability

    79


  17. City | Population 1682

    Livability

    79


  18. City | Population 1149

    Livability

    79


  19. City | Population 1074

    Livability

    79


  20. City | Population 869

    Livability

    79


  21. City | Population 672

    Livability

    79


  22. City | Population 604

    Livability

    79


  23. City | Population 444

    Livability

    79


  24. City | Population 432

    Livability

    79


  25. City | Population 360

    Livability

    79