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We present the final results of the Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites(ELVES) Survey, a survey of the dwarf satellites of a nearly volume-limitedsample of Milky Way (MW)-like hosts in the Local Volume. Hosts are selectedsimply via a cut in luminosity ($M_{K_s}<-22.1$ mag) and distance ($D<12$ Mpc).We have cataloged the satellites of 25 of the 31 such hosts, with another fivetaken from the literature. All hosts are surveyed out to at least 150 projectedkpc ($\sim R_\mathrm{vir}/2$) with the majority surveyed to 300 kpc ($\simR_\mathrm{vir}$). Satellites are detected using a consistent semi-automatedalgorithm specialized for low surface brightness dwarfs. As shown throughextensive tests with injected galaxies, the catalogs are complete to$M_V\sim-9$ mag and $\mu_{0,V}\sim26.5$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$. Candidates areconfirmed to be real satellites through distance measurements includingredshift, tip of the red giant branch, and surface brightness fluctuations.Across all 30 surveyed hosts, there are 338 confirmed satellites with a further105 candidates awaiting distance measurement. For the vast majority of these,we provide consistent multi-band S\'{e}rsic photometry. We show that satelliteabundance correlates with host mass, with the MW being quite typical amongstcomparable systems, and that satellite quenched fraction rises steeply withdecreasing satellite mass, mirroring the quenched fraction for the MW and M31.The ELVES survey represents a massive increase in the statistics of surveyedsystems with known completeness, and the provided catalogs are a unique datasetto explore various aspects of small-scale structure and dwarf galaxy evolution.

The Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) Survey: A Nearly Volume-Limited Sample of Nearby Dwarf Satellite Systems