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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 405

    Livability

    75


  2. City | Population 329

    Livability

    75


  3. City | Population 292

    Livability

    75


  4. City | Population 287

    Livability

    75


  5. City | Population 178

    Livability

    75


  6. City | Population 162

    Livability

    75


  7. City | Population 146

    Livability

    75


  8. City | Population 52713

    Livability

    74


  9. City | Population 48968

    Livability

    74


  10. City | Population 23871

    Livability

    74


  11. City | Population 22301

    Livability

    74


  12. City | Population 17276

    Livability

    74


  13. City | Population 15460

    Livability

    74


  14. City | Population 13232

    Livability

    74


  15. City | Population 9307

    Livability

    74


  16. City | Population 7033

    Livability

    74


  17. City | Population 7019

    Livability

    74


  18. City | Population 5544

    Livability

    74


  19. City | Population 5423

    Livability

    74


  20. City | Population 3573

    Livability

    74


  21. City | Population 3482

    Livability

    74


  22. City | Population 3262

    Livability

    74


  23. City | Population 2956

    Livability

    74


  24. City | Population 2931

    Livability

    74


  25. City | Population 2643

    Livability

    74