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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 284

    Livability

    78


  2. City | Population 161

    Livability

    78


  3. City | Population 112

    Livability

    78


  4. City | Population 107

    Livability

    78


  5. City | Population 8622

    Livability

    77


  6. City | Population 7814

    Livability

    77


  7. City | Population 7441

    Livability

    77


  8. City | Population 5774

    Livability

    77


  9. City | Population 3857

    Livability

    77


  10. City | Population 3807

    Livability

    77


  11. City | Population 3332

    Livability

    77


  12. City | Population 1845

    Livability

    77


  13. City | Population 1353

    Livability

    77


  14. City | Population 1259

    Livability

    77


  15. City | Population 872

    Livability

    77


  16. City | Population 852

    Livability

    77


  17. City | Population 835

    Livability

    77


  18. City | Population 830

    Livability

    77


  19. City | Population 810

    Livability

    77


  20. City | Population 617

    Livability

    77


  21. City | Population 542

    Livability

    77


  22. City | Population 472

    Livability

    77


  23. City | Population 321

    Livability

    77


  24. City | Population 300

    Livability

    77


  25. City | Population 296

    Livability

    77