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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 841611

    Livability

    78


  2. City | Population 26263

    Livability

    78


  3. City | Population 20050

    Livability

    78


  4. City | Population 19157

    Livability

    78


  5. City | Population 12284

    Livability

    78


  6. City | Population 9546

    Livability

    78


  7. City | Population 6828

    Livability

    78


  8. City | Population 5184

    Livability

    78


  9. City | Population 3171

    Livability

    78


  10. City | Population 2746

    Livability

    78


  11. City | Population 2516

    Livability

    78


  12. City | Population 1990

    Livability

    78


  13. City | Population 1772

    Livability

    78


  14. City | Population 1680

    Livability

    78


  15. City | Population 1163

    Livability

    78


  16. City | Population 1038

    Livability

    78


  17. City | Population 740

    Livability

    78


  18. City | Population 499

    Livability

    78


  19. City | Population 485

    Livability

    78


  20. City | Population 412

    Livability

    78


  21. City | Population 293

    Livability

    78


  22. City | Population 230

    Livability

    78


  23. City | Population 148

    Livability

    78


  24. City | Population 73226

    Livability

    77


  25. City | Population 10678

    Livability

    77