Crime in Dayton, Nevada
Major crime in Dayton is 58% below the U.S. rate per resident: 8% lower for persons crimes and 69% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 6.3% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Simple assault and drugs and alcohol stand out most, at about 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Dayton for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Dayton
The middle half of Dayton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 57; the typical (median) resident's is 27. The citywide figure (42) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5072.0%
- 50–10025.2%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4002.8%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 6.3% in a year; across Nevada it fell 12.1%
Change in expected crimes, with Nevada as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Dayton against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,680 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Dayton; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Dayton has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Washoe Valley (12 mi), is 7% above Dayton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Dayton
What are the most common crimes in Dayton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 41 a year), aggravated assault (about 41 a year) and burglary (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Dayton's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Dayton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 18,049. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Dayton, Nevada." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nv/dayton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Washoe Valley12 mi45
- Carson City14 mi65
- Silver Springs18 mi84
- Indian Hills18 mi69
- Johnson Lane19 mi23
- Incline Village22 mi76
- Reno23 mi128
- Sparks23 mi150