The 10 Easiest Cities To Get Laid In California For 2022


If you can’t score in these CA cities, something is seriously wrong with you.

Editor’s Note: This article is an opinion based on facts and is meant as infotainment. Don’t freak out we updated this article for 2022. This is our ninth time ranking the easiest cities to get laid in California.

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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:

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The 10 Easiest Places To Get Laid In California

  1. Berkeley
  2. Pasadena
  3. Oakland
  4. Davis
  5. Santa Monica
  6. Monterey Park
  7. Glendale
  8. Loma Linda
  9. Monterey
  10. Stanford

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

Berkeley, CA

Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/10

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

Pasadena, CA

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

7.5
/10

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

Oakland, CA

Overall SnackAbility

7
/10

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

Davis, CA

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/10

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

Santa Monica, CA

Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/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

Monterey Park, CA

Overall SnackAbility

8
/10

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

Glendale, CA

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

7
/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

Loma Linda, CA

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

7
/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

Monterey, CA

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/10

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

Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/10

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:

  1. Oak Hills
  2. Rosedale
  3. Nipomo

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Detailed List Of The Best Cities For Getting Laid In California For 2022

Rank City Population Bars
1 Berkeley, CA 123,065 33
2 Pasadena, CA 142,017 17
3 Oakland, CA 422,575 61
4 Davis, CA 68,640 11
5 Santa Monica, CA 91,600 15
6 Monterey Park, CA 60,597 4
7 Glendale, CA 199,357 21
8 Loma Linda, CA 24,239 4
9 Monterey, CA 28,575 10
10 Stanford, CA 16,200 8
11 Fountain Valley, CA 56,118 4
12 Duarte, CA 21,399 4
13 San Francisco, CA 874,784 4
14 Torrance, CA 144,430 6
15 Santa Barbara, CA 90,911 13
16 Walnut, CA 29,764 4
17 Los Angeles, CA 3,973,278 78
18 Isla Vista, CA 15,733 5
19 Azusa, CA 49,584 4
20 Claremont, CA 35,610 4
21 Santa Cruz, CA 65,011 27
22 Palm Desert, CA 53,087 7
23 Pleasant Hill, CA 34,903 4
24 Alameda, CA 79,827 20
25 Laguna Woods, CA 16,056 4
26 Rosemead, CA 53,850 35
27 Long Beach, CA 462,081 7
28 Pomona, CA 151,124 6
29 San Mateo, CA 103,619 11
30 El Cajon, CA 103,249 5
31 Aliso Viejo, CA 50,385 5
32 Vallejo, CA 121,275 5
33 West Covina, CA 105,808 5
34 Arcata, CA 18,266 5
35 Emeryville, CA 11,679 4
36 San Rafael, CA 59,178 13
37 Eureka, CA 26,938 7
38 Sacramento, CA 503,482 30
39 Costa Mesa, CA 112,958 6
40 La Mirada, CA 48,260 4
41 Anaheim, CA 353,085 30
42 Carson, CA 91,354 4
43 La Verne, CA 32,346 4
44 Compton, CA 95,804 4
45 Fullerton, CA 141,061 14
46 West Carson, CA 22,697 4
47 Palo Alto, CA 67,973 18
48 Cypress, CA 49,137 4
49 San Luis Obispo, CA 47,402 12
50 Beverly Hills, CA 33,709 6
51 Moraga, CA 16,896 4
52 Alhambra, CA 84,509 5
53 Santa Clara, CA 126,723 13
54 Seaside, CA 34,063 4
55 Chico, CA 98,683 4
56 Saratoga, CA 31,084 4
57 San Pablo, CA 30,959 4
58 Irvine, CA 272,694 10
59 Whittier, CA 84,821 4
60 Mission Viejo, CA 95,638 6
61 Oceanside, CA 175,694 7
62 Los Alamitos, CA 11,521 4
63 San Anselmo, CA 12,623 5
64 Santa Paula, CA 30,297 4
65 Camarillo, CA 68,583 5
66 Santa Rosa, CA 178,391 5
67 Barstow, CA 23,547 6
68 Santa Fe Springs, CA 17,643 4
69 Covina, CA 47,787 5
70 Baldwin Park, CA 75,659 4
71 Watsonville, CA 52,398 4
72 San Dimas, CA 33,812 4
73 Gardena, CA 59,401 5
74 Ashland, CA 23,566 4
75 El Monte, CA 113,917 4
76 San Diego, CA 1,414,545 46
77 Stockton, CA 311,103 6
78 El Cerrito, CA 25,280 7
79 Signal Hill, CA 11,430 4
80 Redlands, CA 71,680 4
81 Belmont, CA 26,963 4
82 Artesia, CA 16,456 4
83 Downey, CA 111,263 4
84 View Park-Windsor Hills, CA 11,621 4
85 Napa, CA 78,294 4
86 South Lake Tahoe, CA 22,535 7
87 Pittsburg, CA 71,723 5
88 Capitola, CA 10,090 10
89 La Mesa, CA 60,208 5
90 Inglewood, CA 109,309 5
91 Santee, CA 57,407 5
92 Turlock, CA 72,715 23
93 Laguna Beach, CA 22,991 4
94 Indio, CA 89,996 4
95 Westmont, CA 35,188 4
96 La Palma, CA 15,657 4
97 Marysville, CA 12,467 5
98 West Hollywood, CA 35,506 6
99 Hayward, CA 158,817 14
100 Larkspur, CA 12,363 6

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About Nick Johnson

Nick Johnson earned his masters in Business Administration from the Drucker School At Claremont Graduate University. He has written for 39 publications across the country and ran the media relations department at Movoto, a real estate portal based in San Francisco. He has been featured in over 500 publications as an expert in real estate and as an authority on real estate trends.

Nick's the creator of the HomeSnacks YouTube channel that now has over 260,000 subscribers and is an excellent source to learn about different parts of the country.