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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 319

    Livability

    79


  2. City | Population 292

    Livability

    79


  3. City | Population 191

    Livability

    79


  4. City | Population 175

    Livability

    79


  5. City | Population 143

    Livability

    79


  6. City | Population 136

    Livability

    79


  7. City | Population 111

    Livability

    79


  8. City | Population 89

    Livability

    79


  9. City | Population 58

    Livability

    79


  10. City | Population 9564

    Livability

    78


  11. City | Population 8295

    Livability

    78


  12. City | Population 7458

    Livability

    78


  13. City | Population 3316

    Livability

    78


  14. City | Population 1451

    Livability

    78


  15. City | Population 1384

    Livability

    78


  16. City | Population 1175

    Livability

    78


  17. City | Population 838

    Livability

    78


  18. City | Population 763

    Livability

    78


  19. City | Population 588

    Livability

    78


  20. City | Population 497

    Livability

    78


  21. City | Population 477

    Livability

    78


  22. City | Population 464

    Livability

    78


  23. City | Population 358

    Livability

    78


  24. City | Population 338

    Livability

    78


  25. City | Population 297

    Livability

    78