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There are a number of party hot spots in California.
For example, Pasadena, California has been called one of the biggest party towns in the nation. And you can see why. It has a large number of college kids, a very young population, and frankly, there's a huge bar scene.
But is it the best city to score in? The purpose of this post is to use science and data to determine which places are the easiest you could possibly go in California if you wanted to hook up with someone.
After analyzing 440 of the state's most populous areas (over 10,000 people), we came up with this list as the 10 easiest places to get laid in the state of California:
Are you trying to find love in California?
The 10 Easiest Places To Get Laid In California
You might be thinking, "Berkeley?!" Why haven't I gone there before?
Well if you live in Berkeley, you're probably already aware of the pure excitement level, based on the criteria we list below. And if you're not already regularly hooking up there well, then there's nothing we can do about that.
That's your own personal problem.
Read on below to see how we crunched the numbers and see how the places near you fared. We've got the complete list of the most populous cities below so you know where to go and where to avoid on your next road trip.
The hardest place to get lucky in California, according to science? That would be Oak Hills. More on that later.
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The 10 Easiest Places To Get Laid In California For 2022
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Get Laid Score: 87.1
Rank Last Year: 1 (No Change)
Population: 123,065
Bars: 33
Colleges: 13
More on Berkeley: Cost Of Living | Crime Report
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Get Laid Score: 81.5
Rank Last Year: 2 (No Change)
Population: 142,017
Bars: 17
Colleges: 7
More on Pasadena: Cost Of Living | Crime Report
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Get Laid Score: 81.5
Rank Last Year: 3 (No Change)
Population: 422,575
Bars: 61
Colleges: 10
More on Oakland: Cost Of Living | Crime Report
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Get Laid Score: 80.7
Rank Last Year: 4 (No Change)
Population: 68,640
Bars: 11
Colleges: 1
More on Davis: Cost Of Living | Crime Report
/10
Get Laid Score: 80.0
Rank Last Year: 7 (Up 2)
Population: 91,600
Bars: 15
Colleges: 2
More on Santa Monica: Cost Of Living | Crime Report
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Get Laid Score: 78.8
Rank Last Year: 5 (Down 1)
Population: 60,597
Bars: 4
Colleges: 1
More on Monterey Park: Cost Of Living | Crime Report
/10
Get Laid Score: 78.0
Rank Last Year: 6 (Down 1)
Population: 199,357
Bars: 21
Colleges: 1
More on Glendale: Cost Of Living | Crime Report
/10
Get Laid Score: 75.9
Rank Last Year: 8 (No Change)
Population: 24,239
Bars: 4
Colleges: 1
More on Loma Linda: Cost Of Living | Crime Report
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Get Laid Score: 75.1
Rank Last Year: 20 (Up 11)
Population: 28,575
Bars: 10
Colleges: 3
More on Monterey: Cost Of Living | Crime Report
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Get Laid Score: 73.7
Rank Last Year: 10 (No Change)
Population: 16,200
Bars: 8
Colleges: 1
More on Stanford: Cost Of Living
How do you decide if a place in the Golden State is easy to get lucky in?
In order to rank the chances where you're most likely to get laid in California, we had to determine what criteria helps people hook up. It isn't a stretch to assume that people will get frisky where there are plenty of young singles, areas where people aren't married and with kids, and in areas with high lots of adult things to do.
So we found databases across the internet for those criteria, and it spit out the answer. Like magic.
How we crunched the numbers for getting laid
We know we are answering a bar topic with this one, but we still try to be scientific about it. With that in mind we used the most recent 2016-2020 American Community Survey Census data produced for the state of California. And we paired it up with data from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 and colleges from IPEDS.
Can't really get any better data than that.
We paid particular attention to:
- Population density
- % of population that's female (More females than males)
- % of unmarried people in each city
- % of households with kids in each city
- Colleges per capita
- Bars per capita
We then gave each city a "Chance To Get Laid Score".
The higher the score, the better the city is for getting lucky. We also limited our results to cities with populations over 10,000 people. For California, that meant a total of 440 cities.
Read on to see why Berkeley is party central.
There You Have It - The Best Cities for Getting Some in California for 2022
If you're looking at cities in California where it's easy to get laid because the population is young, single and ready to party, this is an accurate list.
Who ever said science is a bore?
If you're also curious enough, here are the hardest places to get laid in California, according to science:
- Oak Hills
- Rosedale
- Nipomo
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