Crime in Sparks, Nevada
Major crime in Sparks is 50% above the U.S. rate per resident: 24% higher for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 1.3% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sparks 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 Sparks
The middle half of Sparks residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 43 and 151; the typical (median) resident's is 73. The citywide figure (150) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5035.7%
- 50–10024.1%
- 100–20020.3%
- 200–40014.3%
- 400+5.6%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 1.3% 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.
Sparks against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
74 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sparks; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sparks has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Sun Valley (3 mi), is 69% below Sparks's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sparks
What are the most common crimes in Sparks?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 863 a year), other larceny (about 757 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 467 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.4 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. Sparks's figures add up its 78 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sparks has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 68.3% 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: 113,325. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sparks, Nevada." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nv/sparks
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Sun Valley3 mi47
- Spanish Springs6 mi36
- Reno6 mi128
- Lemmon Valley9 mi65
- Cold Springs15 mi36
- Washoe Valley20 mi45
- Dayton23 mi42
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