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Rank City Population Agoura Hills 22,400 Albany 16,000 Aliso Viejo 41,400 Alpine 13,000 Anaheim 333,200 Antioch 99,600 Aptos 9,000 Arden-Arcade 94,900 Arroyo Grande 16,900 Atascadero 28,000 Auburn 13,000 Bakersfield 315,800 Baywood-Los Osos 13,700 Belmont 24,600 Benicia 26,300 Berkeley 101,400 Beverly Hills 34,600 Bonita 12,300 Brea 38,400 Burbank 103,300 Burlingame 27,600 Cameron Park 16,700 Campbell 37,700 Capitola 9,500 Carlsbad 95,400 Carpinteria 13,700 Carson 92,800 Casa de Oro-Mount Helix 18,100 Chula Vista 217,500 Claremont 35,000 Clovis 90,800 Compton 94,400 Concord 120,800 Corona 150,300 Coronado 22,800 Corte Madera 9,300 Costa Mesa 109,000 Covina 47,300 Culver City 38,900 Cypress 47,100 Daly City 100,900 Dana Point 35,700 Discovery Bay 13,800 Downey 108,100 Dublin 44,000 East Los Angeles 128,300 El Cajon 92,500 El Cerrito 22,200 El Dorado Hills 30,300 El Monte 122,300 El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) 28,600 El Segundo 16,300 Elk Grove 131,200 Escondido 136,200 Fairfield 104,000 Fairview 9,600 Fontana 183,500 Foothill Ranch 13,400 Fremont 201,300 Fresno 470,500 Fullerton 132,100 Garden Grove 165,600 Glendale 197,000 Glendora 49,700 Gold River 9,000 Goleta 29,500 Grand Terrace 12,300 Granite Bay 22,300 Half Moon Bay 12,300 Hayward 140,900 Healdsburg 10,900 Hercules 24,500 Hermosa Beach 19,400 Huntington Beach 192,900 Inglewood 113,400 Irvine 201,200 La Mirada 49,800 La Palma 15,600 La Quinta 43,100 La Riviera 10,300 La Verne 33,100 Laguna 45,500 Laguna Hills 31,900 Laguna Woods 18,200 Lancaster 143,600 Larkspur 11,700 Live Oak 16,000 Loma Linda 21,700 Long Beach 466,500 Los Alamitos 11,700 Los Angeles 3,834,300 Marina del Rey 9,500 Martinez 35,100 Millbrae 20,700 Mission Viejo 94,600 Modesto 204,000 Monrovia 37,600 Monterey 28,500 Moorpark 36,200 Moreno Valley 188,900 Morgan Hill 37,600 Murrieta 90,600 Newark 41,700 Norco 26,900 North Auburn 13,100 Norwalk 103,700 Oakland 401,500 Oceanside 168,600 Ontario 170,900 Orange 134,300 Orangevale 28,000 Orcutt 28,500 Oxnard 184,700 Pacific Grove 14,700 Pacifica 37,300 Palm Springs 47,900 Palmdale 140,900 Pasadena 143,400 Pinole 18,700 Pismo Beach 8,500 Placentia 49,700 Placerville 9,900 Pleasant Hill 32,700 Pomona 152,600 Poway 48,700 Prunedale 16,600 Rancho Cucamonga 170,300 Rancho Mirage 16,700 Rancho Palos Verdes 41,400 Rancho San Diego 20,600 Rialto 98,700 Richmond 101,500 Rio del Mar 9,000 Riverside 294,400 Rohnert Park 40,500 Rosemont 24,300 Roseville 108,800 Rossmoor 10,300 Sacramento 460,200 Salinas 143,500 San Anselmo 12,000 San Bernardino 199,300 San Bruno 40,000 San Buenaventura (Ventura) 103,200 San Carlos 27,000 San Diego 1,266,700 San Diego Country Estates 9,900 San Dimas 35,300 San Francisco 765,000 San Jose 939,900 San Juan Capistrano 34,600 San Luis Obispo 43,500 San Mateo 91,800 Santa Ana 339,600 Santa Clara 109,800 Santa Clarita 170,000 Santa Rosa 154,200 Scotts Valley 11,200 Seal Beach 24,100 Sierra Madre 10,900 Simi Valley 120,500 Solana Beach 12,800 Sonoma 9,900 South Gate 97,100 South Pasadena 24,600 Stockton 287,200 Sunnyvale 131,100 Temecula 94,800 Thousand Oaks 123,300 Torrance 141,400 Truckee 16,000 Vacaville 92,100 Vallejo 115,600 Victorville 107,200 Visalia 118,600 Vista 90,800 West Carson 22,000 West Covina 106,400 Westlake Village 8,500
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