These Are The 10 Best Cities For Singles In California For 2018

Are you trying to find love in California?

Or are you just looking to hook up?

Either way, we’ve got you covered here. At least, we’ll point you in the right direction – which is why you came here in the first place, right?

According to the Pew Research Center, the number of Americans who have remained single (not married) is growing. That means, people are dating a lot longer than they used to.

There are many reasons for that, including financial and cultural. And, we suspect smartphones and social media has a lot to do with it, too. After all, we’re all a lot more distracted these days.

If you live in California, there’s a pretty good chance there are a lot of singles in your area. The Golden State ranks in the top 10 when it comes to number of people over the age of 18 who aren’t married, or in a serious relationship. That’s great news for people looking for their match.

So, where are the best cities for singles in California? We’ve got the answers here.

These are the best cities for singles in California. Try not to jump in the car with a dozen roses:

1. Santa Cruz (Photos)
2. Davis
3. Berkeley (Photos)
4. Hermosa Beach (Photos)
5. Emeryville (Photos)
6. Los Angeles (Photos)
7. Long Beach (Photos)
8. San Francisco (Photos)
9. Imperial Beach (Photos)
10. Hawthorne

Read on below to see how we crunched the numbers and how each city ranked. If you live in or really close to one of these cities, and you’re single, you should probably get out more often. And stop staring at your phone. Just sayin’.

The most boring place in California? That would be Lafayette.

And after you find a mate, you’ll no doubt want to start a family and buy a home right? Don’t forget to check out the best places to live in California or the safest places to live in California.

How do you determine which city is best for singles in California anyways?

To give you the places in California which are best for singles to find one another, we have to look at a handful of metrics. Of course, we want to measure the type of people who live in each city, and make some assumptions about what single people like.

So we researched the internet for a database that contains all that information.

How we crunched the numbers for the Golden State

We threw a lot of criteria at this one in order to get the best, most complete results possible. Using the 2011-2015 American Community Survey Census data produced for the state of California, we looked at every single city in the state. We paid particular attention to:

• Population density
• % of population that’s male vs. female (closer to a 50-50 ratio is better)
• % of households with kids
• Median age
• Number of unmarried people in each city

We then gave each city a Singles Score.

The higher the score, the better the city is for singles to find one another. We also limited our results to cities with populations over 10,000 people. For California, that meant a total of 361 cities.

Read on to see why Santa Cruz is the talk of the town while Lafayette is probably a bit on the boring side.

1. Santa Cruz

Population: 63,310
Median Age: 28.9
Married households: 32.2%
Households with kids: 20.7%
Santa Cruz (/sænt kruz/, Spanish: Holy Cross) is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California. As of 2013 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Santa Cruz’s population at 62,864.

2. Davis

Population: 66,886
Median Age: 25.6
Married households: 39.8%
Households with kids: 25.1%
Davis formerly Davisville[better source needed] is a city in the U.S. state of California and the most populous city in Yolo County. It had a population of 65,622 in 2010, not including the on-campus population of the University of California, Davis, which was over 9,400 (not including students’ families) in 2016. The city is a suburb of California’s capital, Sacramento.

3. Berkeley

Population: 118,585
Median Age: 31.4
Married households: 33.8%
Households with kids: 19.1%
Berkeley (/brkli/ BURK-lee) is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2010 census recorded a population of 112,580.

4. Hermosa Beach

Population: 19,726
Median Age: 38.3
Married households: 37.8%
Households with kids: 21.4%
Hermosa Beach is a beachfront city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Its population was 19,506 at the 2010 census.

5. Emeryville

Population: 11,111
Median Age: 35.5
Married households: 23.0%
Households with kids: 12.4%
Emeryville is a small city located in northwest Alameda County, California, in the United States. It is located in a corridor between the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, extending to the shore of San Francisco Bay. Its proximity to San Francisco, the Bay Bridge, the University of California, Berkeley, and Silicon Valley has been a catalyst for recent economic growth.

6. Los Angeles

Population: 3,918,872
Median Age: 35.0
Married households: 38.2%
Households with kids: 31.0%
Los Angeles (/ls ændls/ ( listen); Spanish for ‘The Angels’; Spanish pronunciation: [los axeles]), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a U.S. Census-estimated 2016 population of 3,976,322, it is the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in the state of California. Located in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over 10,000 feet (3,000 m), Los Angeles covers an area of about 469 square miles (1,210 km2). The city is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the country. Los Angeles is the center of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, with 13,131,431 residents, and is part of the larger designated Los Angeles-Long Beach combined statistical area (CSA), the second most populous in the nation with a 2015 estimated population of 18.7 million.

7. Long Beach

Population: 469,793
Median Age: 34.2
Married households: 37.9%
Households with kids: 33.7%
Long Beach is a city on the Pacific Coast of the United States, within the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257. It is the 36th most populous city in the United States and the 7th most populous in California. Long Beach is the second largest city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and the third largest in Southern California behind Los Angeles and San Diego.

8. San Francisco

Population: 850,282
Median Age: 38.4
Married households: 34.7%
Households with kids: 18.5%

9. Imperial Beach

Population: 27,180
Median Age: 31.8
Married households: 40.6%
Households with kids: 36.2%

10. Hawthorne

Population: 86,938
Median Age: 32.4
Married households: 36.5%
Households with kids: 40.3%
Hawthorne is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city at the 2010 census had a population of 84,293, up from 84,112 in 2000. In 2013, the population was 86,199.

There You Have It – The Best Cities for Singles in California

If you’re looking for a breakdown of cities in California ranked by criteria that most would agree make a place a great spot for finding a single person (and potentially love), this is an accurate list.

Here’s a look at the most boring cities in California according to the data:

1. Lafayette
2. Danville
3. Calabasas

For more California reading, check out:

• These Are The 10 Most Dangerous Cities In California
• These Are The 10 Safest Places In California
• These Are The 10 Best Places To Live In California

Detailed List Of The Best Cities For Singles In California

City	Rank	Population	Median Age
Santa Cruz	1	63,310	28.9
Davis	2	66,886	25.6
Berkeley	3	118,585	31.4
Hermosa Beach	4	19,726	38.3
Emeryville	5	11,111	35.5
Los Angeles	6	3,918,872	35.0
Long Beach	7	469,793	34.2
San Francisco	8	850,282	38.4
Imperial Beach	9	27,180	31.8
Hawthorne	10	86,938	32.4
Santa Monica	11	92,247	40.5
San Diego	12	1,374,812	34.2
Santa Barbara	13	90,922	37.8
Chico	14	89,377	29.8
San Pablo	15	29,991	33.4
Oakland	16	412,040	36.2
Costa Mesa	17	112,439	34.5
Grover Beach	18	13,484	37.9
San Luis Obispo	19	46,716	26.1
Redondo Beach	20	67,664	40.7
Signal Hill	21	11,404	33.2
Pasadena	22	140,268	37.7
South El Monte	23	20,566	34.2
El Cajon	24	102,894	34.1
Paramount	25	54,941	30.7
Sacramento	26	484,530	34.2
San Bruno	27	42,736	39.2
Lemon Grove	28	26,421	37.0
East Palo Alto	29	29,353	29.2
Maywood	30	27,672	29.2
Fresno	31	513,807	30.2
Huntington Beach	32	198,724	41.4
Oroville	33	18,884	33.2
Merced	34	81,461	29.4
Goleta	35	30,671	37.3
West Hollywood	36	35,661	39.4
Stanton	37	38,594	34.4
Vista	38	98,560	32.9
Salinas	39	155,889	30.1
La Mesa	40	59,125	36.6
Tustin	41	79,396	34.2
Capitola	42	10,109	42.6
Bell Gardens	43	42,805	27.8
Huntington Park	44	58,921	30.0
Arcata	45	17,775	24.8
Cudahy	46	24,106	27.4
San Bernardino	47	214,581	28.9
Port Hueneme	48	22,126	32.0
Alhambra	49	84,866	41.0
Pomona	50	151,807	31.0
Oceanside	51	173,829	36.8
El Monte	52	115,665	35.4
San Rafael	53	58,948	41.9
Campbell	54	40,788	38.6
South Gate	55	95,219	31.2
Atwater	56	28,906	30.3
San Mateo	57	102,224	38.9
Fullerton	58	139,491	34.6
Inglewood	59	111,012	34.0
Anderson	60	10,156	34.8
Modesto	61	208,512	35.3
Marina	62	20,816	36.9
Eureka	63	27,002	36.9
Montebello	64	63,416	37.3
Riverside	65	318,678	31.4
Montclair	66	38,294	32.4
Rohnert Park	67	41,928	33.6
Santa Ana	68	333,605	30.5
Stockton	69	301,443	31.8
Mountain View	70	78,827	35.0
Marysville	71	12,176	30.7
El Centro	72	43,699	32.9
San Buenaventura (Ventura)	73	109,067	38.9
South San Francisco	74	66,587	38.8
South Pasadena	75	25,936	39.9
Citrus Heights	76	85,954	37.7
San Leandro	77	89,039	40.8
Anaheim	78	346,776	33.7
Lemoore	79	25,169	27.6
Orange	80	139,919	35.1
Santa Clara	81	122,725	34.1
Watsonville	82	52,915	29.7
Bellflower	83	77,687	33.3
Compton	84	97,740	29.8
Norwalk	85	106,360	34.9
Oxnard	86	204,752	31.4
Lomita	87	20,652	40.4
Porterville	88	58,472	29.1
Alameda	89	77,409	40.8
Exeter	90	10,504	31.6
Ceres	91	47,231	30.3
Westminster	92	91,635	41.0
Concord	93	126,938	37.7
Monterey	94	28,472	37.2
Lynwood	95	71,233	28.9
Selma	96	24,228	30.7
Garden Grove	97	174,676	37.4
Hanford	98	54,912	31.9
Lancaster	99	159,651	31.8
Santa Maria	100	103,642	29.4