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Place dossier plate
SheetNV-NORTH-LAS-VEGAS-NV · North Las Vegas, NV 270,773 pop · income 58th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around North Las Vegas
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest North Las Vegas on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Toledo · lowest
47,532
Toledo · lowest
47,532 median HH income
39.2% of the leader · rank #1
Orleans · near
76,768
Orleans · near
76,768 median HH income
63.3% of the leader · rank #2
Midway South · near
76,768
Midway South · near
76,768 median HH income
63.3% of the leader · rank #3
North Las Veg… · this city
76,772
North Las Veg… · this city
76,772 median HH income
63.3% of the leader · rank #4
Butler Beach · near
76,776
Butler Beach · near
76,776 median HH income
63.3% of the leader · rank #5
Manchester · near
76,780
Manchester · near
76,780 median HH income
63.3% of the leader · rank #6
Gilbert · highest
121,351
Gilbert · highest
121,351 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for North Las Vegas on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 270,773.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
North Las Vegas - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, North Las Vegas places in the 58th percentile for household income and the 25th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
58th
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
67th
percentile, median rent
25th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: North Las Vegas, NV
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 270,773 residents in North Las Vegas, a mid-sized U.S. city within Nevada. Median household income here is $76,772 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.9%. North Las Vegas's housing stock carries a median value of $372,300, and the median resident age is 34.3 years. 18.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 58.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 2,078 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), down 5% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2350.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Nevada tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Nevada at 100.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,428 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Nevada's average monthly utility costs around $190 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 46.2 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of North Las Vegas's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to population change to reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For North Las Vegas, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for North Las Vegas?
The NCES join finds 9 public schools within the city match. 18.2% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Is North Las Vegas growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +35,489 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +13.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2,078 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in North Las Vegas?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2350.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 3% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for North Las Vegas?
Within Nevada, the closest population matches are Reno (268,959 residents, $78,448 income); Enterprise (232,043 residents, $93,980 income); Spring Valley (219,913 residents, $72,364 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Gilbert, AZ (271,118 residents); Toledo, OH (268,461 residents); Chula Vista, CA (275,030 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in North Las Vegas?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
1.9%
Work from home
7.4%
Drive alone
75.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 122,850 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in North Las Vegas?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Household income
$76,772
Home value
$372,300
Value / income
4.8×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 9.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Nevada average
F
City profile score · North Las Vegas, NV
39/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income C
$76,772
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living D
100.0 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
389 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
North Las Vegas profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 56/100 (C) · $76,772
Poverty rate: 40/100 (D) · 9.9%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Bachelor's+ share: 29/100 (F) · 18.2%
Violent crime: 23/100 (F) · 389 /100k
Where North Las Vegas sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
North Las Vegas's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - North Las Vegas highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
North Las Vegas, NV (this city): home $372,300, crime 2,350/100k
Gilbert, AZ : home $518,600, crime 1,100/100k
Toledo, OH : home $107,000, crime 3,773/100k
Chula Vista, CA : home $697,400, crime 1,508/100k
Fort Wayne, IN : home $169,700, crime 2,531/100k
Madison, WI : home $346,900, crime 2,121/100k
Buffalo, NY : home $152,300, crime 4,516/100k
Reno, NV : home $498,600, crime 2,975/100k
Henderson, NV : home $465,000, crime 1,987/100k
How does North Las Vegas compare to other US cities?
North Las Vegas measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income58% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent67% pricier than other cities
Safety25% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Nevada and the picture shifts: North Las Vegas ranks #7 of 10 Nevada cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares North Las Vegas against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Nevada only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Nevada-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places North Las Vegas near the bottom of Nevada's cities
Among the 111 Nevada cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, North Las Vegas ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares North Las Vegas only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#50 of 101
50th percentile in Nevada
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 111
0th percentile in Nevada
Median Home Value
#42 of 97
57th percentile in Nevada
Poverty Rate
#30 of 111
73rd percentile in Nevada
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#57 of 111
48th percentile in Nevada
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Nevada only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
58th percentile nationally for median household income · 25th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
North Las Vegas's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
North Las Vegas's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How North Las Vegas's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$372,30025th percentilemore affordable than 25% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
North Las Vegas's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,627 of 15,516
More affordable than 19% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#65 of 117
Large cities (200,000–999,999)
At 4.8×, North Las Vegas sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,627 of 15,516 and #65 of 117large cities (200,000–999,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$76,772North Las Vegas, NV median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context North Las Vegas, NV median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for North Las Vegas, NV.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
270,773
Median Income
$76,772
Median Home Value
$372,300
Median Age
34.3
Poverty Rate
9.9%
Labor force participation
58.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2350.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
388.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1961.4
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
North Las Vegas's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
261,164 residents
2021
271,070 residents
2022
280,192 residents
2023
286,220 residents
2024
292,321 residents
2025
296,653 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
2,078
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,587
detached homes
Multifamily
491
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
2,178
1,834
344
$297.9M
2020
4,030
3,040
990
$883.7M
2021
3,746
2,835
911
$886.4M
2022
2,221
1,087
1,134
$436.5M
2023
1,959
1,429
530
$514.8M
2024
2,078
1,587
491
$560.1M
Permit volume decreased 5% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.7%
Carpool
11.6%
Public Transit
1.9%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
7.4%
Other
2.7%
Based on 122,850 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Nevada statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $190
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Nevada at $190 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Nevada statewide averages, not a meter reading for North Las Vegas. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Nevada's BEA cost-of-living index is 100.0 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around North Las Vegas is $1,428/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Nevada statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 46.2 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Nevada statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county North Las Vegas sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How North Las Vegas compares to similar-size Nevada cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.