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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 56434

    Livability

    56


  2. City | Population 30459

    Livability

    56


  3. City | Population 30008

    Livability

    56


  4. City | Population 27110

    Livability

    56


  5. City | Population 25343

    Livability

    56


  6. City | Population 23147

    Livability

    56


  7. City | Population 7185

    Livability

    56


  8. City | Population 3128

    Livability

    56


  9. City | Population 146392

    Livability

    55


  10. City | Population 106638

    Livability

    55


  11. City | Population 92078

    Livability

    55


  12. City | Population 91417

    Livability

    55


  13. City | Population 80993

    Livability

    55


  14. City | Population 58207

    Livability

    55


  15. City | Population 42271

    Livability

    55


  16. City | Population 20306

    Livability

    55


  17. City | Population 17791

    Livability

    55


  18. City | Population 8424

    Livability

    55


  19. City | Population 8116

    Livability

    55


  20. City | Population 4692

    Livability

    55


  21. City | Population 1127

    Livability

    55


  22. City | Population 1077

    Livability

    55


  23. City | Population 74601

    Livability

    54


  24. City | Population 67019

    Livability

    54


  25. City | Population 56372

    Livability

    54