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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 1545

    Livability

    76


  2. City | Population 1072

    Livability

    76


  3. City | Population 1050

    Livability

    76


  4. City | Population 740

    Livability

    76


  5. City | Population 735

    Livability

    76


  6. City | Population 662

    Livability

    76


  7. City | Population 625

    Livability

    76


  8. City | Population 602

    Livability

    76


  9. City | Population 571

    Livability

    76


  10. City | Population 566

    Livability

    76


  11. City | Population 548

    Livability

    76


  12. City | Population 445

    Livability

    76


  13. City | Population 445

    Livability

    76


  14. City | Population 313

    Livability

    76


  15. City | Population 283

    Livability

    76


  16. City | Population 278

    Livability

    76


  17. City | Population 273

    Livability

    76


  18. City | Population 267

    Livability

    76


  19. City | Population 264

    Livability

    76


  20. City | Population 221

    Livability

    76


  21. City | Population 215

    Livability

    76


  22. City | Population 96

    Livability

    76


  23. City | Population 44849

    Livability

    75


  24. City | Population 24978

    Livability

    75


  25. City | Population 18923

    Livability

    75