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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 16538

    Livability

    75


  2. City | Population 10742

    Livability

    75


  3. City | Population 7541

    Livability

    75


  4. City | Population 7326

    Livability

    75


  5. City | Population 6185

    Livability

    75


  6. City | Population 6022

    Livability

    75


  7. City | Population 5774

    Livability

    75


  8. City | Population 5611

    Livability

    75


  9. City | Population 4299

    Livability

    75


  10. City | Population 3795

    Livability

    75


  11. City | Population 3454

    Livability

    75


  12. City | Population 3289

    Livability

    75


  13. City | Population 3151

    Livability

    75


  14. City | Population 2312

    Livability

    75


  15. City | Population 2252

    Livability

    75


  16. City | Population 2181

    Livability

    75


  17. City | Population 1837

    Livability

    75


  18. City | Population 1766

    Livability

    75


  19. City | Population 1442

    Livability

    75


  20. City | Population 1278

    Livability

    75


  21. City | Population 1038

    Livability

    75


  22. City | Population 868

    Livability

    75


  23. City | Population 637

    Livability

    75


  24. City | Population 622

    Livability

    75


  25. City | Population 515

    Livability

    75