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Rank City Population Agoura Hills 22,600 Alameda 70,600 Alhambra 87,500 Aliso Viejo 41,400 Altadena 44,600 Anaheim 334,400 Antioch 100,500 Apple Valley 68,800 Arcadia 56,400 Arden-Arcade 99,200 Atascadero 27,300 Bakersfield 308,300 Baldwin Park 78,500 Bay Point 23,700 Bellflower 74,300 Belmont 24,600 Benicia 26,500 Berkeley 101,500 Beverly Hills 34,900 Brea 38,500 Brentwood 47,500 Buena Park 79,600 Burbank 104,300 Burlingame 27,500 Calabasas 22,400 Camarillo 62,400 Campbell 37,500 Carlsbad 92,900 Carmichael 51,700 Carson 93,800 Castro Valley 56,600 Cathedral City 52,400 Cerritos 52,300 Chico 73,300 Chino 79,200 Chino Hills 75,200 Chula Vista 212,700 Citrus Heights 84,500 Claremont 35,100 Clovis 89,300 Colton 51,400 Compton 95,700 Concord 122,200 Corona 150,200 Coronado 26,500 Costa Mesa 109,800 Covina 47,800 Culver City 39,400 Cupertino 52,900 Cypress 47,600 Daly City 101,000 Dana Point 35,900 Danville 41,500 Davis 60,900 Diamond Bar 57,700 Downey 109,300 Duarte 22,100 Dublin 41,800 East Los Angeles 130,300 East Palo Alto 32,700 El Cajon 91,700 El Cerrito 22,600 El Dorado Hills 23,400 El Monte 123,100 Elk Grove 129,100 Encinitas 59,200 Escondido 133,500 Fair Oaks 30,300 Fairfield 104,800 Fallbrook 30,200 Florence-Graham 63,700 Folsom 66,100 Fontana 170,000 Foster City 28,900 Fremont 201,600 Fresno 466,700 Fullerton 132,900 Galt 23,300 Garden Grove 166,200 Gardena 59,700 Gilroy 48,300 Glendale 199,400 Glendora 50,300 Goleta 29,100 Granite Bay 23,700 Hacienda Heights 55,000 Hawthorne 85,400 Hayward 140,600 Hemet 70,100 Hercules 24,700 Hermosa Beach 19,500 Hesperia 83,300 Highland 51,500 Hollister 35,600 Huntington Beach 194,400 Huntington Park 62,100 Indio 76,800 Inglewood 114,900 La Canada Flintridge 20,900 La Habra 59,200 La Mesa 53,000 La Mirada 49,700 La Presa 34,600 La Quinta 41,300 La Verne 33,300 Lafayette 24,800 Laguna 45,800 Laguna Beach 24,100 Laguna Hills 32,100 Laguna Niguel 64,700 Laguna West-Lakeside 29,900 Lake Elsinore 45,000 Lake Forest 76,300 Lakeside 20,600 Lakewood 80,000 Lancaster 140,800 Lemon Grove 23,800 Lincoln 39,500 Livermore 79,400 Lodi 62,400 Lomita 20,400 Long Beach 472,400 Los Altos 27,400 Los Angeles 3,849,300 Los Banos 34,700 Los Gatos 28,300 Lynwood 71,000 Madera 54,900 Manhattan Beach 36,600 Manteca 63,700 Martinez 35,500 Menlo Park 29,900 Merced 76,300 Millbrae 20,400 Milpitas 64,200 Mira Loma 21,700 Mission Viejo 94,800 Modesto 205,700 Monrovia 38,000 Montebello 62,900 Monterey 28,800 Monterey Park 62,100 Moorpark 35,600 Moreno Valley 183,500 Morgan Hill 35,900 Mountain View 70,000 Murrieta 90,400 Napa 74,900 National City 60,900 Newark 41,800 Newport Beach 80,000 Norco 27,000 Norwalk 105,200 Novato 51,500 Oakland 397,000 Oakley 28,800 Oceanside 165,800 Ontario 173,300 Orange 135,000 Orangevale 27,800 Orcutt 29,200 Oxnard 184,400 Pacifica 37,300 Palm Desert 47,000 Palm Springs 47,800 Palmdale 138,700 Palo Alto 57,800 Paramount 56,300 Pasadena 144,100 Petaluma 54,600 Pico Rivera 64,300 Pittsburg 63,000 Placentia 49,900 Pleasant Hill 33,100 Pleasanton 66,300 Pomona 154,200 Poway 48,100 Rancho Cordova 59,900 Rancho Cucamonga 170,700 Rancho Palos Verdes 41,700 Rancho San Diego 20,500 Rancho Santa Margarita 50,600 Redding 90,000 Redlands 70,300 Redondo Beach 67,300 Redwood City 73,600 Richmond 102,100 Ridgecrest 26,100 Riverbank 20,300 Riverside 293,700 Rocklin 50,100 Rohnert Park 41,000 Rosemead 54,900 Rosemont 24,300 Rowland Heights 50,500 Sacramento 453,700 Salinas 145,000 San Bernardino 198,900 San Bruno 39,900 San Buenaventura (Ventura) 104,000 San Carlos 27,000 San Clemente 61,000 San Diego 1,256,900 San Dimas 35,700 San Francisco 744,000 San Jose 929,900 San Juan Capistrano 34,800 San Leandro 78,000 San Lorenzo 21,200 San Luis Obispo 42,900 San Marcos 76,500 San Mateo 91,600 San Rafael 56,000 San Ramon 49,500 Santa Ana 340,000 Santa Barbara 85,600 Santa Clara 108,500 Santa Clarita 168,000 Santa Cruz 54,700 Santa Maria 84,700 Santa Monica 88,000 Santa Paula 28,500 Santa Rosa 154,200 Santee 52,500 Saratoga 30,000 Seal Beach 24,300 Simi Valley 121,200 South Pasadena 24,800 South San Francisco 61,300 South San Jose Hills 21,200 South Whittier 57,800 Spring Valley 29,000 Stockton 290,100 Suisun City 26,900 Temecula 89,300 Temple City 37,800 Thousand Oaks 124,200 Torrance 142,300 Tracy 80,300 Turlock 68,400 Tustin 69,600 Tustin Foothills 24,900 Union City 69,400 Upland 73,300 Vacaville 92,600 Valinda 22,500 Vallejo 116,800 Victorville 98,600 Visalia 113,400 Vista 89,800 Walnut 31,200 Walnut Creek 63,700 West Carson 22,300 West Covina 107,700 West Puente Valley 23,500 West Whittier-Los Nietos 26,100 Westminster 89,500 Whittier 84,000 Windsor 25,200 Winter Gardens 19,900 Woodland 51,100 Yorba Linda 65,300 Yuba City 60,300 Yucaipa 50,200
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