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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 4808

    Livability

    60


  2. City | Population 3424

    Livability

    60


  3. City | Population 2309

    Livability

    60


  4. City | Population 215182

    Livability

    59


  5. City | Population 158241

    Livability

    59


  6. City | Population 110327

    Livability

    59


  7. City | Population 77457

    Livability

    59


  8. City | Population 75384

    Livability

    59


  9. City | Population 67988

    Livability

    59


  10. City | Population 60635

    Livability

    59


  11. City | Population 59172

    Livability

    59


  12. City | Population 55523

    Livability

    59


  13. City | Population 54417

    Livability

    59


  14. City | Population 50602

    Livability

    59


  15. City | Population 47525

    Livability

    59


  16. City | Population 47160

    Livability

    59


  17. City | Population 46276

    Livability

    59


  18. City | Population 42330

    Livability

    59


  19. City | Population 39295

    Livability

    59


  20. City | Population 37006

    Livability

    59


  21. City | Population 34239

    Livability

    59


  22. City | Population 31185

    Livability

    59


  23. City | Population 30037

    Livability

    59


  24. City | Population 25824

    Livability

    59


  25. City | Population 22439

    Livability

    59