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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 22703

    Livability

    58


  2. City | Population 5863

    Livability

    58


  3. City | Population 3765

    Livability

    58


  4. City | Population 126209

    Livability

    57


  5. City | Population 67294

    Livability

    57


  6. City | Population 48955

    Livability

    57


  7. City | Population 40242

    Livability

    57


  8. City | Population 39065

    Livability

    57


  9. City | Population 36137

    Livability

    57


  10. City | Population 35573

    Livability

    57


  11. City | Population 34785

    Livability

    57


  12. City | Population 30080

    Livability

    57


  13. City | Population 19431

    Livability

    57


  14. City | Population 17398

    Livability

    57


  15. City | Population 14343

    Livability

    57


  16. City | Population 9866

    Livability

    57


  17. City | Population 7591

    Livability

    57


  18. City | Population 6930

    Livability

    57


  19. City | Population 1273

    Livability

    57


  20. City | Population 120977

    Livability

    56


  21. City | Population 109340

    Livability

    56


  22. City | Population 84974

    Livability

    56


  23. City | Population 64273

    Livability

    56


  24. City | Population 60792

    Livability

    56


  25. City | Population 60614

    Livability

    56