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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 6139

    Livability

    77


  2. City | Population 5717

    Livability

    77


  3. City | Population 5523

    Livability

    77


  4. City | Population 4429

    Livability

    77


  5. City | Population 4314

    Livability

    77


  6. City | Population 4312

    Livability

    77


  7. City | Population 2956

    Livability

    77


  8. City | Population 2524

    Livability

    77


  9. City | Population 2450

    Livability

    77


  10. City | Population 1832

    Livability

    77


  11. City | Population 1789

    Livability

    77


  12. City | Population 1069

    Livability

    77


  13. City | Population 948

    Livability

    77


  14. City | Population 864

    Livability

    77


  15. City | Population 665

    Livability

    77


  16. City | Population 594

    Livability

    77


  17. City | Population 511

    Livability

    77


  18. City | Population 444

    Livability

    77


  19. City | Population 47553

    Livability

    76


  20. City | Population 11008

    Livability

    76


  21. City | Population 7952

    Livability

    76


  22. City | Population 7024

    Livability

    76


  23. City | Population 6885

    Livability

    76


  24. City | Population 4201

    Livability

    76


  25. City | Population 3704

    Livability

    76