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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 60446

    Livability

    60


  2. City | Population 59924

    Livability

    60


  3. City | Population 55525

    Livability

    60


  4. City | Population 52049

    Livability

    60


  5. City | Population 38117

    Livability

    60


  6. City | Population 33913

    Livability

    60


  7. City | Population 33869

    Livability

    60


  8. City | Population 28512

    Livability

    60


  9. City | Population 28088

    Livability

    60


  10. City | Population 26569

    Livability

    60


  11. City | Population 26060

    Livability

    60


  12. City | Population 21713

    Livability

    60


  13. City | Population 16817

    Livability

    60


  14. City | Population 15668

    Livability

    60


  15. City | Population 14132

    Livability

    60


  16. City | Population 12567

    Livability

    60


  17. City | Population 11967

    Livability

    60


  18. City | Population 11006

    Livability

    60


  19. City | Population 8798

    Livability

    60


  20. City | Population 7666

    Livability

    60


  21. City | Population 7470

    Livability

    60


  22. City | Population 7449

    Livability

    60


  23. City | Population 7071

    Livability

    60


  24. City | Population 5912

    Livability

    60


  25. City | Population 5317

    Livability

    60