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City in California, United States

Clovis

$509kMedian Home
View on Map· Pop. 121k· Elev. 361 ftWikipedia

Clovis is a city in Fresno County, California, United States. It was established in 1890 as a freight stop for the San Joaquin Valley Railroad by a group of Fresno businessmen and Michigan railroad speculator Marcus Pollasky. The railroad bought the land from two farmers and named the station after one of them, Clovis Cole. Pollasky then developed a town on the site, also named Clovis.Wikipedia

Motto: Gateway to the Sierras
About the RegionCalifornia

California contains multitudes in a way that makes any single characterization misleading. The Bay Area and Los Angeles operate as global city-states, with housing markets, income levels, and cultural gravity that put them in direct competition with London and Tokyo rather than with other American metros. Both have lost net domestic migrants to lower-cost states for most of the last decade — primarily to Texas, Arizona, and Nevada — though both also continue to be net draws for international migration and maintain labor markets of extraordinary depth and diversity.

But California's geography is vast. The Central Valley offers costs of living that rival the Midwest with driving distance to the Sierra Nevada; the North Coast is one of the most beautiful and least-crowded stretches of American coastline; and the smaller cities of the inland valleys represent genuinely different lifestyle profiles. For remote workers who can absorb the state income tax and housing cost, the combination of climate diversity, outdoor access, and cultural institution density remains difficult to replicate anywhere in the world.

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Current Conditions

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Cost of Living

Housing
$2k/mo
Median Rent
$509k
Median Home Price
Rent burden29% of income
Household Income
$99k
Median annual
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Livability

Walk Score
92
Transit Score
29
School Rating
6.2/10
Internet
Fiber
27%
Cable
91%
address availability
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Demographics

Population121k
Altitude361 ftabove sea level
Median Age35 yrs
College Educated35%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home9%of workforce
Poverty Rate8%

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