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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 20636

    Livability

    59


  2. City | Population 16850

    Livability

    59


  3. City | Population 15317

    Livability

    59


  4. City | Population 13730

    Livability

    59


  5. City | Population 12375

    Livability

    59


  6. City | Population 11628

    Livability

    59


  7. City | Population 5819

    Livability

    59


  8. City | Population 5797

    Livability

    59


  9. City | Population 5285

    Livability

    59


  10. City | Population 2833

    Livability

    59


  11. City | Population 2591

    Livability

    59


  12. City | Population 1303

    Livability

    59


  13. City | Population 733

    Livability

    59


  14. City | Population 1026658

    Livability

    58


  15. City | Population 306283

    Livability

    58


  16. City | Population 174010

    Livability

    58


  17. City | Population 152323

    Livability

    58


  18. City | Population 110730

    Livability

    58


  19. City | Population 82781

    Livability

    58


  20. City | Population 80771

    Livability

    58


  21. City | Population 51773

    Livability

    58


  22. City | Population 43114

    Livability

    58


  23. City | Population 42470

    Livability

    58


  24. City | Population 27020

    Livability

    58


  25. City | Population 24364

    Livability

    58