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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 27506

    Livability

    61


  2. City | Population 18075

    Livability

    61


  3. City | Population 18050

    Livability

    61


  4. City | Population 15981

    Livability

    61


  5. City | Population 11900

    Livability

    61


  6. City | Population 10862

    Livability

    61


  7. City | Population 8374

    Livability

    61


  8. City | Population 7555

    Livability

    61


  9. City | Population 6079

    Livability

    61


  10. City | Population 5725

    Livability

    61


  11. City | Population 4822

    Livability

    61


  12. City | Population 4720

    Livability

    61


  13. City | Population 4340

    Livability

    61


  14. City | Population 1877

    Livability

    61


  15. City | Population 1365

    Livability

    61


  16. City | Population 1156

    Livability

    61


  17. City | Population 556

    Livability

    61


  18. City | Population 128758

    Livability

    60


  19. City | Population 107242

    Livability

    60


  20. City | Population 96124

    Livability

    60


  21. City | Population 86280

    Livability

    60


  22. City | Population 79516

    Livability

    60


  23. City | Population 69007

    Livability

    60


  24. City | Population 67815

    Livability

    60


  25. City | Population 63288

    Livability

    60