Healthiest Cities in California

Adult health outcomes and behaviors estimated by the CDC: obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes, smoking, mental distress, sleep and health insurance coverage.

15 cities ranked in California (of 96 nationwide).

Rank	City	Population	Score
4	Irvine, CA Orange County	318,683	88.1
6	San Francisco, CA San Francisco County	827,526	85.7
11	San Diego, CA San Diego County	1,404,452	79.4
16	San Jose, CA Santa Clara County	997,368	74.0
22	Chula Vista, CA San Diego County	278,546	66.9
28	Oakland, CA Alameda County	443,554	61.7
43	Long Beach, CA Los Angeles County	450,901	54.6
44	Sacramento, CA Sacramento County	535,798	54.2
46	Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County	3,878,704	53.2
51	Anaheim, CA Orange County	344,561	47.8
66	Riverside, CA Riverside County	323,757	35.7
74	Santa Ana, CA Orange County	316,184	31.9
75	Stockton, CA San Joaquin County	324,975	31.4
84	Bakersfield, CA Kern County	417,468	26.5
87	Fresno, CA Fresno County	550,105	25.1

How this ranking works

Each metric is scored 0-100 by percentile against the other ranked cities, then blended using these weights:

Adults with obesity (lower is better) ×2
Adults with no leisure-time physical activity (lower is better) ×2
Adults with diabetes (lower is better) ×2
Adults with frequent mental distress (lower is better) ×2
Adults who currently smoke (lower is better) ×1
Adults sleeping under 7 hours (lower is better) ×1
Adults without health insurance (lower is better) ×1
Adults with a routine checkup ×1

Scores are relative to the cities in our dataset. About the data.

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Data: CDC PLACES