2026 Compare Cities Health:
Castro Valley, CA vs Rochester, MN

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Highlights
- There are 1,194 physicians per 100,000 people in Rochester.
- There are 226 physicians per 100,000 people in Castro Valley.
- The US average is 210 physicians per 100,000 people.
 Castro Valley, CARochester, MNUnited States
 Air Quality (100=best)  Unlock51.558.4
 Water Quality (100=best)32  Unlock55
 Superfund Sites (100=best)  Unlock91.586.9
 Physicians per Cap.226  Unlock210
 Health Cost  Unlock93100
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Reviews for Castro Valley    7 Reviews

CURMUDGEON - THANK YOU for your post. The most important part of your comment is your second paragraph. "Hodge-Podge" is the correct word for a lot of Castro  More

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Over 12 years ago

Kind of rural but close to Oakland and San  More

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Castro Valley is the largest unincorporated "city" in the Bay Area. Over the years, several attempts have been made to incorporate, but they have all been defeated at  More

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Reviews for Rochester    31 Reviews

Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 6 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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