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Best Cities to Live in North Carolina

Best places to live rankings for North Carolina 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 20053

    Livability

    79


  2. City | Population 10227

    Livability

    79


  3. City | Population 8300

    Livability

    79


  4. City | Population 7173

    Livability

    79


  5. City | Population 5438

    Livability

    79


  6. City | Population 5112

    Livability

    79


  7. City | Population 5043

    Livability

    79


  8. City | Population 4598

    Livability

    79


  9. City | Population 4418

    Livability

    79


  10. City | Population 4078

    Livability

    79


  11. City | Population 4007

    Livability

    79


  12. City | Population 3851

    Livability

    79


  13. City | Population 2362

    Livability

    79


  14. City | Population 2158

    Livability

    79


  15. City | Population 1811

    Livability

    79


  16. City | Population 1410

    Livability

    79


  17. City | Population 1361

    Livability

    79


  18. City | Population 1200

    Livability

    79


  19. City | Population 996

    Livability

    79


  20. City | Population 732

    Livability

    79


  21. City | Population 695

    Livability

    79


  22. City | Population 513

    Livability

    79


  23. City | Population 398

    Livability

    79


  24. City | Population 362

    Livability

    79


  25. City | Population 191

    Livability

    79