The 100 Best Places To Live In California Ranked 2018

CALIFORNIA — The Presidio in San Francisco is the best place to live in California, according to a new set of rankings released by Niche. Every community in the Top 100 received an A+ grade on Niche’s rankings of best places to live for 2018.

The rankings of best places to live awarded grades from A+ to D- to communities across the state.

To calculate the rankings and assign grades to communities, Niche looks at factors like the quality of local schools, crime rates, housing trends, employment statistics and access to amenities. Niche gets its data from government sources like the Department of Education, the FBI and the U.S. Census. You can read more about Niche’s methodology and data sources.

According to Niche, these are the 100 best communities to live in California:

1. Presidio of San Francisco
2. Albany
3. Rincon Hill
4. Torrey Hills
5. Berkeley
6. Santa Monica
7. Mountain View
8. Del Mar Mesa
9. Via de la Valle
10. Torrey Pines
11. Los Altos Hills
12. Telegraph Hill
13. Manhattan Beach
14. Palo Alto
15. Carmel Valley
16. Showplace Square
17. Lower Haight
18. Potrero Hill
19. Financial District
20. Hayes Valley
21. South Beach
22. Irvine
23. Polk Gulch
24. Mission Dolores
25. Dogpatch
26. Forest Knolls
27. Central Waterfront
28. Mission Bay
29. La Jolla
30. Alamo Square
31. Pacific Highlands Ranch
32. Solana Beach
33. Presidio Heights
34. Parnassus Heights
35. Sabre Springs
36. Lone Mountain
37. Clarendon Heights
38. Black Mountain Ranch
39. Mint Hill
40. Northern Waterfront
41. Pacific Heights
42. Cow Hollow
43. Davis
44. Los Altos
45. Dolores Heights
46. Noe Valley
47. Duboce Triangle
48. Diamond Heights
49. Buena Vista
50. Carmel Mountain Ranch
51. Hillsborough
52. West Menlo Park
53. Inner Sunset
54. Sherwood Forest
55. Upper Market
56. Forest Hill
57. University
58. Panhandle
59. Lower Pacific Heights
60. Presidio Terrace
61. Piedmont
62. Russian Hill
63. West Portal
64. Torrey Highlands
65. South Pasadena
66. Nob Hill
67. Marina
68. Orinda
69. Saratoga
70. Eureka Valley
71. Corona Heights
72. Hermosa Beach
73. Moraga
74. Ashbury Heights
75. La Cañada Flintridge
76. Ross
77. Aquatic Park / Ft. Mason
78. Laurel Heights / Jordan Park
79. Rancho Bernardo
80. Peralta Heights
81. Rancho Penasquitos
82. Redondo Beach
83. Palos Verdes Estates
84. San Ramon
85. Union Street
86. Fairmount
87. Newport Beach
88. Cole Valley
89. Balboa Terrace
90. Foster City
91. Monterey Heights
92. Burlingame
93. San Marino
94. Beverly Hills
95. Pleasanton
96. Miramar Ranch North
97. Del Mar
98. San Anselmo
99. Strawberry
100. Belmont

You can see how all California communities scored on the Niche rankings here.

— Written by Feroze Dhanoa, Patch; Image via Shutterstock