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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 283

    Livability

    77


  2. City | Population 215

    Livability

    77


  3. City | Population 202

    Livability

    77


  4. City | Population 181

    Livability

    77


  5. City | Population 178

    Livability

    77


  6. City | Population 171

    Livability

    77


  7. City | Population 105

    Livability

    77


  8. City | Population 81

    Livability

    77


  9. City | Population 20028

    Livability

    76


  10. City | Population 15532

    Livability

    76


  11. City | Population 15120

    Livability

    76


  12. City | Population 13309

    Livability

    76


  13. City | Population 12923

    Livability

    76


  14. City | Population 11393

    Livability

    76


  15. City | Population 7636

    Livability

    76


  16. City | Population 6458

    Livability

    76


  17. City | Population 5223

    Livability

    76


  18. City | Population 4686

    Livability

    76


  19. City | Population 4230

    Livability

    76


  20. City | Population 3367

    Livability

    76


  21. City | Population 2323

    Livability

    76


  22. City | Population 1973

    Livability

    76


  23. City | Population 1699

    Livability

    76


  24. City | Population 1643

    Livability

    76


  25. City | Population 1595

    Livability

    76