CrimeMetric

Crime in Las Vegas, Nevada

Major crime in Las Vegas is 41% above the U.S. rate per resident: 23% higher for persons crimes and 46% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.2% from a year earlier.

How we did this

We start from police agencies' crime reports to the FBI (estimated where an agency doesn't report), model how they spread across the census block groups each agency serves, then add up Las Vegas's 449 block groups. Numbers are estimates with a range of uncertainty, not counts of individual incidents.

Rates are per resident, so areas where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can look high. More on the method

Major crime
141
41% above the U.S. rate
14% above the Nevada rate
down 12.2% in a year
Persons crimes
123
23% above the U.S. rate
10% above the Nevada rate
down 11.3% in a year
Property crimes
146
46% above the U.S. rate
15% above the Nevada rate
down 12.4% in a year
Social disorder
148
48% above the U.S. rate
8% above the Nevada rate
down 12.5% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

Crime by type

Motor vehicle theft is highest, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Las Vegas for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Persons crimes

Rape / sexual assault169389
Murder14135
Aggravated assault1181,873
Robbery110326

Property crimes

Motor vehicle theft2192,397
Burglary1641,851
Shoplifting1523,322
Theft from vehicle1242,263
Other larceny1234,241

Social disorder

Simple assault1979,869
Weapons violations1781,223
Trespassing1522,454
Disorderly conduct1481,213
Vandalism1303,662
Drugs and alcohol1073,667
Intimidation931,459

How crime varies across Las Vegas

Half of Las Vegas residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 42 and 161, and half live where it is below 83. The citywide figure (141) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Las Vegas, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Census block groups shaded by their band of major-crime index per resident, the same bands as the bar below. Pale gray areas have fewer than 100 residents, so no index is published. Gray lines are major highways. Boundaries and roads: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5031.8%
  • 50–10024.5%
  • 100–20026.1%
  • 200–40012.3%
  • 400+5.3%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm177
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am104
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm152
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am108

Trend and outlook

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-12.2%-10.1%
Persons crimes-11.3%+0.4%
Property crimes-12.4%-12.0%
Social disorder-12.5%-3.3%

Change in expected crimes. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Las Vegas against U.S. places with 500,000 to 1 million residents

23 of the 25 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Las Vegas; the middle of the group is 190. The 9 nearest in population:

Portland, OR632,319343
Detroit, MI656,201305
Denver, CO748,860273
Memphis, TN614,042266
Nashville-Davidson, TN732,049223
Oklahoma City, OK722,104189
Washington, DC706,013180
Boston, MA680,418146
Las Vegas, NV688,656141
El Paso, TX687,70583

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

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. Las Vegas's figures add up its 449 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Las Vegas's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 62.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 688,656. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

Full method and validation·Data sources

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Las Vegas, Nevada." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nv/las-vegas

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100