| | Elko, NV | Madera, CA | United States |
| Overall | 100.9 | 104.4 | 100 |
| Food & Groceries | 92.2 | 98.9 | 100 |
| Health | 124.4 | 91.5 | 100 |
| Housing | 104.4 | 106.0 | 100 |
| Median Home Cost | $301,300 | $351,300 | $338,100 |
| Utilities | 9,320.0% | 11,210.0% | 10,000.0% |
| Transportation | 92.6 | 97.1 | 100 |
| Miscellaneous | 88.2 | 109.5 | 100 |
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Elko is like all small Nevada towns - limited in many things and the only change as far as the eye can see are over priced housing starts, drugs and crime. I really like More
Spent my teen years in Elko & my parents still live there. It is extremely isolated. Life revolves around the mining industry. The old ranching families that live More
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I live here for the pass 4 years and in these years I lived in a fifth wheeler I owned a RV motor home but my dreams of selling it went out the window on the4 morning More
I live in Madera, Ca. and it has been listed in Sperling's BestPlaces as having a home medium price of $315,000 and a population of approx. 35,000. As an update to More
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