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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 36384

    Livability

    54


  2. City | Population 34362

    Livability

    54


  3. City | Population 15733

    Livability

    54


  4. City | Population 11308

    Livability

    54


  5. City | Population 120926

    Livability

    53


  6. City | Population 80847

    Livability

    53


  7. City | Population 30886

    Livability

    53


  8. City | Population 19758

    Livability

    53


  9. City | Population 12846

    Livability

    53


  10. City | Population 7139

    Livability

    53


  11. City | Population 78462

    Livability

    52


  12. City | Population 50172

    Livability

    52


  13. City | Population 30588

    Livability

    52


  14. City | Population 19264

    Livability

    52


  15. City | Population 13285

    Livability

    52


  16. City | Population 870044

    Livability

    51


  17. City | Population 90103

    Livability

    50


  18. City | Population 10135

    Livability

    50


  19. City | Population 421042

    Livability

    49


  20. City | Population 11538

    Livability

    49


  21. City | Population 25203

    Livability

    46


  22. City | Population 11724

    Livability

    43