A crime number about Las Vegas usually arrives without its fine print: what was counted, over which months, by which agency, and divided by whom. This guide reads that fine print. It works from the official sources themselves, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the State of Nevada, the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Nevada Legislature, each opened in a browser and dated October 19, 2026.
It starts from our newest Las Vegas Playbook episode, in which Daniel Pittman and Ray San Nicolas take up the question viewers raised after their Henderson versus Las Vegas episode. Ray's core point is that published statistics need context before they help anyone choose a home, and this post supplies that context. It doesn't rank or label neighborhoods, and it isn't a map tutorial: for the agency-by-agency lookups, use our step-by-step crime map lookup guide. For a broader overview of the valley, read our Las Vegas crime overview.
Read every crime number for what it counts. Calls for service aren't crimes: through October 11, 2026, LVMPD logged 610,101 calls and 93,750 reported offenses year-to-date. NIBRS can count several offenses in one incident, the state and FBI publish different totals for the same agency, and per-resident rates leave out visitors. Quote one source with its year and read date, and look at addresses, not citywide averages.
- Only 15.7% of calls in LVMPD's 30-day file, read October 19, 2026, closed with an incident or crime report.
- For 2025, the state portal shows 42,744 LVMPD property crimes; FBI Table 8 shows 41,130.
- Per-resident rates leave out visitors; the LVCVA counted 38,545,700 Las Vegas visitors in calendar 2025.
- Except where a statute allows it, NRS 179B.270 bars using registry information for any housing-related purpose.
- Under NRS 40.770, most past felonies at a property aren't material, so research the address yourself.
What Does the Las Vegas Playbook Episode Say About Crime Statistics?
The episode is page seven of the Las Vegas Playbook, our podcast series, and it exists because viewers asked for it. Daniel opens by explaining that after Ray's appearance on the Henderson versus Las Vegas episode, viewers "felt so passionately that safety was an item that we needed to review." This time the conversation stays on the Las Vegas side of the valley.
The part of the episode this guide builds on comes early. At about 1:18, Ray says that "data on its own doesn't tell the full story," and that the numbers need context before they help. At about 2:05, he points viewers to the public data the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department publishes, which he describes as broken down by the types of crimes. Later, at about 12:19, he says that "the data is skewed and people should look into it," using a crime map as his example.
That is the subject of this post: not where to click, but how to read what the click returns. Each section takes one kind of number you will meet, from calls for service and offense counts to agency totals, per-resident rates, percent changes, theft values, registry entries and seller disclosures, and explains what it does and doesn't measure.
The middle of the episode names specific master plans and gives opinions about them. This guide deliberately doesn't repeat those picks or turn them into a ranking; fair housing guidance, covered later, asks agents to give every client the same factual information instead. If you are earlier in the process, our Las Vegas neighborhood guide for relocators, built on an earlier Playbook episode, covers shortlisting areas by commute, price and lifestyle.
Which Published Sources Hold Las Vegas Crime Numbers?
Four kinds of official source hold the numbers in this guide, and each answers a different question. Which agency's numbers apply depends on the address. According to LVMPD's history of the department, the agency has been "responsible for all police services within the City limits of the City of Las Vegas and the unincorporated areas of the County of Clark" since July 1, 1973, while North Las Vegas, Henderson and Boulder City police their own cities. Our step-by-step crime map lookup guide walks through confirming the jurisdiction and opening each agency's map, so this post doesn't repeat it.
Once you know the agency, the sources sort by scale. An agency's map or open-data file lists individual incidents near an address. LVMPD's weekly crime report, published on its statistics page, shows agency-wide and area-command totals for the year to date. The Nevada Crime Statistics portal and the FBI Crime Data Explorer show full calendar years for a whole agency. None of them works at the scale of a single street, and they don't share one definition of "crime."
Read each source's fine print before quoting it. LVMPD's statistics page says its data "are preliminary and subject to further revision and analysis" and that crime and arrest data "are based on the date the incident occurred," while its report definitions list "Reported On Date" as the date field for the weekly report's crime categories. If a figure will drive a decision, ask the area command which date it uses. The open data portal's home page adds that LVMPD does not guarantee the completeness of its data, which "are not intended for compiling statistics or conducting analytics." The table below is a short glossary of the numbers you will meet.
| Number | What it counts | Where you see it | Common misreading |
|---|---|---|---|
| Call for service | Any dispatched event closed with an incident type from 401 through 447, whether or not a crime occurred | LVMPD weekly report; LVMPD calls data | Treating a call as a confirmed crime |
| Reported offense | An offense on an approved case report; one per victim for person crimes, one per offense code for property crimes | LVMPD weekly report; NIBRS data; state portal | Treating it as one incident or one victim |
| Incident | One event, which NIBRS can record with up to 10 offenses | State portal tables; FBI data | Adding incidents and offenses together |
| Clearance rate | The share of an agency's offenses that it reported as cleared | State portal themes | Reading it as the odds of a crime at an address |
| Rate per 100,000 | Offenses divided by resident population, times 100,000 | FBI Table 8 arithmetic; third-party sites | Forgetting that visitors aren't in the denominator |
| Year-to-date change | This year's count against the same period last year | LVMPD weekly report | Reading a large percentage on a small count as a trend |
What Is the Difference Between Calls for Service and Reported Crimes?
This is the distinction that most often turns a map into a misunderstanding. A call for service is any event that sends an officer, whether or not a crime occurred. A reported offense is a crime that an officer documented in a case report. According to LVMPD's report definitions, calls for service come from the agency's dispatch system and count "every event number closed with an incident type" from 401 through 447, while the crime categories come from approved case reports that generated a NIBRS document.
The gap between the two is large. LVMPD's weekly report for the week ending October 11, 2026 shows 610,101 calls for service year-to-date and 93,750 reported offenses year-to-date, with 294,256 officer-initiated car stops counted separately. The units differ, since one call can produce several offenses and many produce none, so the ratio of about 6.5 calls per reported offense is a rough guide rather than a conversion factor.
The calls themselves show why. We grouped the portal's Calls for Service, Last 30 Days dataset, which held 53,539 records covering about 30 days through October 18, 2026, by the disposition code officers recorded when they cleared each call. LVMPD's own code sheet supplies the labels. Treat the shares below as a description of that file on that day, given LVMPD's caution about analytics.
| Disposition recorded | Calls | Share of file |
|---|---|---|
| Dispatch cancelled | 15,967 | 29.8% |
| Warning and/or subject advised | 5,683 | 10.6% |
| Gone on arrival or unable to locate | 5,682 | 10.6% |
| Incident or crime report taken | 5,602 | 10.5% |
| Other report taken (not an incident or crime report) | 5,012 | 9.4% |
| Radio broadcast only | 4,200 | 7.8% |
| Settled at scene | 3,606 | 6.7% |
| Incident or crime report with an arrest or citation | 2,780 | 5.2% |
| Handled by another jurisdiction | 1,428 | 2.7% |
| Unfounded | 997 | 1.9% |
| Arrest or citation recorded without a report code | 862 | 1.6% |
| All other codes and blanks | 1,720 | 3.2% |
Only about 15.7% of the calls in that file, 8,382 of 53,539, closed with an incident or crime report. Call labels mislead too, because they record what the call looked like at dispatch. The largest single classification in the file was "Unknown Trouble," with 12,289 calls. Of the 2,019 calls classified under "Burglary," 1,006 were burglary-alarm calls, about half, while 587 were coded as burglary and 359 as auto burglary. An area with many monitored alarms can look busy on a calls map even when few of those calls involve a confirmed break-in.
How Does NIBRS Count a Crime?
Every current official number in this guide comes from the National Incident-Based Reporting System, and its counting rules shape the totals. According to the FBI's NIBRS resources page, the national program moved to NIBRS-only collection on January 1, 2021, and NIBRS looks at "all of the offenses within an incident" as well as many more offense types than the older Summary Reporting System. The Henderson Police Department's crime statistics page adds that NIBRS captures details "for up to 10 offenses within a single incident."
The practical consequence is that one incident can produce several counted crimes. LVMPD's definitions say that for person crimes "one offense is counted for each victim," that property crimes are totaled "one count per unique IBR property offense documented" on a case report, and that completed motor vehicle thefts "are counted based on the number of stolen vehicles." Under those rules, a single case report that documents a break-in, a stolen car and a smashed window carries three different offense codes: a burglary, a vehicle theft and vandalism. Nevada's state portal uses similar rules: for violent crime, "one crime is counted for each victim of Murder, Rape and Aggravated Assault," while "for Robbery, the number of crimes equals the number of incidents."
Clearance rates are the other figure you will see next to the counts. According to the Nevada Crime Statistics portal, LVMPD's 2025 violent-crime theme had 7,129 crimes with a 61.27% clearance rate, and its property theme had 42,744 crimes with a 17.04% clearance rate. Clearance measures how many offenses an agency closed, not how likely a crime is at any address, so it belongs in an agency comparison rather than a home search.
Two habits follow. Compare years only within the NIBRS era, from 2021 forward, and within the same agency and theme. And when a headline cites "crimes," ask whether it means offenses, incidents, victims or calls. The state portal explains its theme definitions at the top of each report, which is the easiest place to check what a number counts.
Why Do Two Official Sources Give Different Totals for the Same Agency?
Pull the same agency and year from the state portal and from the FBI, and the numbers won't match. That isn't a sign that either source is wrong; each publishes a different cut of the data. The table below sets the 2025 totals from the Nevada Crime Statistics portal beside the FBI's 2025 city-agency table, known as Table 8, from the FBI Crime Data Explorer, for the four police agencies in the valley. These are agency-wide figures, not neighborhood figures.
| Agency | Violent, Nevada portal | Violent, FBI | Property, Nevada portal | Property, FBI | Population used by FBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | 7,129 | 6,972 | 42,744 | 41,130 | 1,712,136 |
| Henderson Police Department | 826 | 811 | 5,585 | 5,357 | 358,366 |
| North Las Vegas Police Department | 1,113 | 1,076 | 5,150 | 4,837 | 302,881 |
| Boulder City Police Department | 24 | 23 | 129 | 117 | 15,062 |
Part of the property gap is a definition. The state's property theme "covers the property crime offenses of burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny and arson," while the FBI's property crime column adds up burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft and lists arson separately. For LVMPD, the FBI's three columns sum exactly to 41,130, and the state's four offenses sum to 42,744, of which 181 are arsons. The rest of the difference sits in the burglary, larceny and vehicle-theft counts themselves, and neither page reconciles them. The FBI's Table 8 footnote adds one more rule: it doesn't publish arson unless it has all 12 months of an agency's data.
Note the coverage and the date of each source too. On October 19, 2026, the FBI explorer described its 2025 annual summary as based on submissions from 17,075 law enforcement agencies, and said its 2025 tables come from agencies submitting 12 months of complete offense data. The state portal doesn't stamp a refresh date on the report pages we read, so note the day you pulled it. When two sources disagree, quote one of them consistently, say which, and give the year and the read date.
How Should You Read a Per-Capita Crime Rate?
A rate divides reported crimes by population and scales the result, usually to 100,000 residents, so that places of different sizes can be compared. Using the FBI's 2025 Table 8 figures, LVMPD's 6,972 violent crimes over a population of 1,712,136 work out to about 407 per 100,000 residents, and its 41,130 property crimes to about 2,402 per 100,000. That is the arithmetic every crime-ranking website runs, and it is where the trouble starts.
The FBI itself warns against turning those rates into rankings. Its caution against ranking, published with Crime in the United States, says rankings "provide no insight into the many variables that mold the crime in a particular town, city, county," and lists among those variables a jurisdiction's "economic dependence on nonresidents (such as tourists and convention attendees)." It adds that "one city may report more crime than a comparable one, not because there is more crime, but rather because its law enforcement agency, through proactive efforts, identifies more offenses," and that residents' reporting practices affect the totals too.
The denominator is the part most readers skip. The population in a rate counts residents, but offenses are recorded where they happen, whoever was involved. According to the LVCVA's historical tourism statistics, Las Vegas drew 38,545,700 visitors in 2025, with a room inventory of 150,300 and total occupancy of 80.3%. On an average night that is roughly 120,700 occupied rooms, none of whose guests appear in a resident population.
To see how much the denominator matters, run an illustration rather than an adjustment. If each of those occupied rooms held just one person and all of them sat inside LVMPD's area, adding about 120,700 people to the 1,712,136 residents would lower the violent rate from about 407 to about 380 per 100,000. Not every hotel is in LVMPD's area, a room can hold more than one guest, and day visitors and commuters aren't counted at all, so this isn't a corrected rate. It shows how sensitive a per-resident rate is to who is actually present.
Our rule of thumb is simple: use rates to follow one agency over time, use counts and incident lists to look at an address, and don't rank places by either.
Why Do Tourist Corridors Like the Strip Distort the Numbers?
The resort corridor sits inside LVMPD's territory, so every incident recorded there feeds the same agency-wide totals as residential streets miles away. That concentrates two distortions in one place. The first is the denominator problem from the previous section: many of the people present on a given night are visitors who don't appear in the resident population. The second is geographic averaging. LVMPD's weekly report groups offenses by area command, and each command mixes whatever lies inside its boundary, which can include resorts, apartments, single-family streets and shopping centers.
The episode makes a version of this point at about 12:19: "the data is skewed and people should look into it." Ray's example is how a map reads: a residential area close to the Strip can look as though it carries the corridor's activity simply because it sits nearby. The fix is to read the incidents themselves, their dates, offense types and locations, rather than the color of a map or a heat layer.
Location types help. NIBRS records where an offense happened, and LVMPD's Reported NIBRS Crimes dataset, which held 239,747 records reported from January 1, 2025 through October 11, 2026 when we read it on October 19, carries a "Location Type" field. Across the whole file, 78,542 records were coded "Residence/Home," 43,774 "Highway/Road/Alley," 22,476 "Parking Lot/Garage," 12,174 "Gambling Facility/Casino/Race Track" and 11,156 "Hotel/Motel/Etc." Sorting nearby incidents the same way is how you separate a busy shopping center a mile away from the street you would live on.
None of this means the corridor is irrelevant if you are looking at a high-rise condo nearby. It means the corridor's numbers describe the corridor. Ray's buyer from Los Angeles, at about 8:00, asked him to film a walk around the block before buying a high-rise unit, because the building's surroundings were the question, not the citywide statistic. Our high-rise condo guide lists the towers, and the same address-level reading applies to each one.
How Should You Read Year-to-Date Changes in LVMPD's Weekly Report?
The weekly report is where most "crime is up" or "crime is down" headlines start, and it compares two windows: this year to date against the same period last year. For the week ending October 11, 2026, it shows 93,750 reported offenses against 100,527 a year earlier, a 6.7% decline. Those are partial-year figures, so they can't be set beside a full calendar year from the state portal or the FBI. The report also calls itself "a point in time aggregation" whose metrics "are subject to change," and it is refreshed weekly on Tuesdays with data through the previous Sunday.
Group names don't travel between sources either. In LVMPD's weekly report, the "Property" group, 42,301 offenses year-to-date, includes robbery, fraud, vandalism, counterfeiting and embezzlement alongside burglary, larceny and vehicle theft, because NIBRS classifies those as crimes against property. The state portal's "property crime" theme covers only burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny and arson, and its "violent crime" theme includes robbery. Two numbers labeled "property" can differ in both their window and their contents.
Percent changes on small counts swing hard. The same report shows reports of hacking or computer invasion up 245.8%, from 24 to 83, and negligent manslaughter up 100.0%, from 0 to 1, a percentage that has no real meaning when the starting count is zero. Larger counts move more steadily: simple assault went from 21,006 to 20,554, a 2.2% decline. A large percentage on a large count, such as the 31.6% drop in motor vehicle thefts from 7,153 to 4,890, carries more weight. Read the counts before the percentages, and treat a single week's report as a snapshot that later weeks may revise.
What Do Theft and Property-Loss Numbers Actually Include?
Larceny is the largest single category in most of these reports, and one word covers very different events. Nevada's state portal publishes the property-loss value recorded for larceny incidents. For 2025 statewide, its table counts 7,283 incidents at $0 and 3,650 with an unknown value, 5,398 between $2 and $24, 7,833 between $25 and $99, 15,517 between $100 and $499, 16,376 between $500 and $4,999, 3,083 between $5,000 and $49,999, and 375 at $50,000 or more. Those bands total 59,515, more than the 44,165 larcenies in the state's 2025 property theme, and the portal doesn't reconcile the two, so read the bands as a distribution of recorded losses, not a count of thefts.
The law draws its own lines at different values. Under NRS 205.0835, theft of property worth less than $1,200 is a misdemeanor; $1,200 to under $5,000 is a category D felony; $5,000 to under $25,000 is a category C felony; $25,000 to under $100,000 is a category B felony with a fine of up to $10,000; and $100,000 or more is a category B felony with a fine of up to $15,000. A crime map shows the same larceny icon for all of them.
The state portal also publishes the value of property reported stolen and the value recovered. The 2025 statewide figures below, for selected property types, show why a vehicle-theft count and a cash-theft count tell different stories.
| Property type | Value stolen | Value recovered | Recovered share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motorized vehicles | $169,713,032 | $128,733,945 | 75.9% |
| Money | $114,126,076 | $2,138,134 | 1.9% |
| Jewelry, precious metals and gems | $45,019,402 | $848,038 | 1.9% |
| Tools | $7,411,999 | $332,556 | 4.5% |
| Portable electronic communications | $7,007,604 | $229,637 | 3.3% |
| Household goods | $5,181,028 | $58,896 | 1.1% |
| Bicycles | $2,456,635 | $104,268 | 4.2% |
| Firearms | $1,778,248 | $220,279 | 12.4% |
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, only 30.5% of property crimes were reported to police in 2024, and only 25.4% of thefts other than burglary and motor vehicle theft, compared with 75.0% of motor vehicle thefts. That is one more reason a theft count near a home understates small losses and comes closer for stolen cars. Our desert home inspection guide covers the physical checks, such as locks, lighting and garage doors, that belong in the same file as the numbers.
What Are the Legal Limits on Using the Nevada Sex Offender Registry?
The state registry is run by the Nevada Department of Public Safety at sexoffenders.nv.gov. We name it rather than link it because its conditions page says no private or commercial enterprise "has been authorized to provide links to this site." After you accept those conditions, the site lets you search by name, list registrants within a distance of an address, or list registrants in a Nevada ZIP code. The national Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website searches state registries together.
Know what the public list leaves out. Under NRS 179B.250, the public website may not show information on a Tier I offender unless the offender was convicted of a sexual offense against a child or a crime against a child. The state's conditions page puts it plainly: the site posts "Tier Level 1 offenders with child victims, all Tier Level 2 and Tier Level 3 offenders, and juvenile sex offenders convicted of certain sex offenses." It also says the department "has made no determination that any individual included in the registry is currently dangerous," that the information "can change frequently," and that positive identification "cannot be guaranteed without a fingerprint comparison." LVMPD's sex offender page describes the same tiers for the OffenderWatch database it links for its jurisdiction.
The legal limits matter for a home search. NRS 179B.270 says that, except as otherwise authorized by a specific statute, a person "shall not use information obtained from the community notification website for any purpose related to" insurance, loans, credit, employment, education, "housing or accommodations," or business services. NRS 179B.280 makes a violator liable for damages in a civil action, and allows a civil penalty of up to $25,000 in an action brought by the Attorney General.
So a registry search is not a neighborhood statistic, and it isn't something to fold into a housing decision without advice. Nevada's seller-disclosure law, covered in the next section, also says that an offender living nearby is not material to a sale. We aren't lawyers; if you intend to rely on registry information in any housing-related decision, read the statute and ask a Nevada attorney how it applies to you.
What Won't a Nevada Seller Tell You About a Property's Crime History?
Many buyers assume a seller must disclose anything serious that happened at a house. Nevada law says otherwise for several categories. Under NRS 40.770, the fact that a property "is or has been" the site of a homicide, a suicide or a death from any other cause (except a death resulting from a condition of the property), or "the site of any crime punishable as a felony" other than one involving methamphetamine manufacturing, "is not material to the transaction." Sellers, landlords and their agents aren't liable for failing to disclose those facts.
The same statute covers the neighborhood. Subsection 2 says that the fact that a sex offender "resides or is expected to reside in the community is not material," and that the seller and the seller's agent do not have "a duty to disclose such a fact." Subsection 3 says the same about a licensed facility for transitional living for released offenders located near the property. Methamphetamine manufacturing is treated differently: it falls outside the general rule, and the statute makes it immaterial only when the property has been remediated by a certified or licensed entity or "deemed safe for habitation by the board of health."
So the research falls to the buyer, and the records behind a crime number are only partly public. LVMPD's Find Your Station page says incident crime reports are "available to victims of the reported crime," and that "requests from individuals who are not involved parties must be submitted through the Public Records Request process." According to LVMPD's report-copy page, an incident or crime report costs $13.00, a request should wait at least 10 business days after an incident, and mail-in requests take approximately 3 to 4 weeks. North Las Vegas lists $5 per police report, $10 for photographs on disc, and $40 an hour for extensive research with a $40 non-refundable deposit on its police records page, and notes that some records may require a subpoena.
Write your questions down early in the due diligence period and ask your agent which records exist for the address. A buyer's agent can't promise what an agency will release, but can make sure the requests go in early enough to matter.
What Can't Crime Data Tell You About a Specific Home?
Start with what never reaches the numbers. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' Criminal Victimization, 2024 report, published in September 2025, about 47.9% of violent victimizations and 30.5% of property crimes nationally were reported to police in 2024. The National Crime Victimization Survey exists to capture crimes "both reported and not reported to the police," and its gap is a reminder that agency data shows what was reported and recorded, nothing more.
Small areas make the counting problems from earlier sections sharper. Over a few blocks and a few months, a handful of incidents can double or halve a count, and one case report can add several offenses. A week of vehicle break-ins in one parking garage says little about a house two streets away next year, and a quiet month says little about the year. Compare the same months across two years, keep the incidents' location types in view, and note the date you pulled the data.
Most important, the data describes incidents, not the people who live near them. The National Association of REALTORS' fair housing FAQ on steering, crime and schools notes a HUD "Dear Colleague" letter of April 24, 2026, stating that sharing crime-rate information with buyers isn't a Fair Housing Act violation "if such information is shared consistently and without discriminatory intent." NAR's advice is for agents to "share the same kind of neighborhood information with all clients," and to stay "objective and factual." That is why we hand every client the same sources rather than an opinion.
How Do You Compare Homes in Different Cities Without Mixing Up the Numbers?
Comparing homes across city lines is where reading the numbers correctly matters most, because each agency publishes on its own terms. Say you are weighing a home in Henderson against one in unincorporated Clark County, which LVMPD covers, and a third in North Las Vegas. Each agency's map keeps a different time window, listed in our lookup guide, so pick the shortest window all of them share, use the same radius around each address, and pull all three on the same day.
Next, match categories rather than icons. Each source groups offenses its own way, as the weekly report's "Property" group shows, so translate everything into the same handful of NIBRS offenses: assaults, robberies, burglaries, vehicle thefts, larcenies and vandalism. Leave calls for service out of a cross-city comparison entirely: LVMPD publishes them separately, and a calls count from one agency next to a crime count from another compares unlike things.
For agency-wide context, use one source for all three, either the Nevada Crime Statistics portal or the FBI's Table 8, never a mix, and read each agency's trend against its own past rather than against the others. The portal shows, for instance, that LVMPD's 2025 violent theme fell 5.38% from 2024; that is a change within one agency, and the FBI's caution about ranking applies to setting it beside another city's. Our city-level posts read those agency figures in more depth, including the Henderson crime-rate guide, the North Las Vegas crime data guide, the Boulder City crime and homebuyer guide and our Summerlin post.
Last, put the records next to everything else that decides a purchase: the commute, the HOA, the home's condition and the price. For prices, our Las Vegas homes for sale search and the Las Vegas community guides are the next stops.
How Can Nevada Real Estate Group Help You Read the Records for an Address?
We won't rank neighborhoods or pass judgment on a street, and the choice of where to live is yours. What we can do is make sure you have the same official records for every address you are considering, pulled the same way and dated, before you write an offer. That includes confirming which agency's numbers apply, pulling matching windows, separating calls from recorded offenses, reading each total against its own definition, and timing any public-records requests so they come back during your due diligence period.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is a call for service the same as a crime?
No. A call for service is any event that sends an officer, including alarms, disturbances, traffic problems and requests for help. Through October 11, 2026, LVMPD logged 610,101 calls for service and 93,750 reported offenses year-to-date. In LVMPD's 30-day open-data file read October 19, 2026, about 15.7% of calls closed with an incident or crime report.
Why can one incident add several crimes to the totals?
NIBRS records every offense in an incident, up to 10, rather than only the most serious one. LVMPD counts person crimes once per victim and property crimes once per offense code on a case report, so a break-in where a car is stolen and a window smashed can add a burglary, a vehicle theft and vandalism.
Why don't the FBI and Nevada totals match for the same police department?
They publish different cuts of the same reporting system. Nevada's property theme includes arson, while the FBI's property crime total covers burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft and lists arson separately. For 2025, the state portal shows 42,744 property crimes for LVMPD and the FBI shows 41,130. Quote one source consistently, with the year and the date you read it.
How much do visitors change a per-resident crime rate?
Enough to matter. LVMPD's 2025 FBI figures work out to about 407 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. The LVCVA's 2025 figures imply about 120,700 occupied hotel rooms on an average night; counting just one guest per room inside LVMPD's area would lower that rate to about 380. That is an illustration, not a corrected rate.
How should I read a big percent change in LVMPD's weekly report?
Check the counts first. The report for the week ending October 11, 2026 shows hacking or computer invasion up 245.8%, from 24 reports to 83, while simple assault fell 2.2% on counts above 20,000. Large percentages on small counts swing easily, and the report's figures are a point-in-time snapshot that can change.
Can I use the Nevada sex offender registry when buying a home?
The registry is public, and anyone can search it by name, address radius or ZIP code. But NRS 179B.270 says registry information shall not be used "for any purpose related to" several areas, including "housing or accommodations," except as a specific statute allows, and NRS 179B.280 allows civil penalties of up to $25,000. Read the statute and ask a Nevada attorney before relying on it in a housing decision.
Does a Nevada seller have to tell me if a crime happened in the house?
Generally, no. Under NRS 40.770, the fact that a property was the site of a homicide, a suicide or a felony crime other than one involving methamphetamine manufacturing is not material to the transaction, and the seller and agents aren't liable for failing to disclose it. The same statute says a sex offender living in the community isn't material either. Research the address yourself before your due diligence period ends.
Which Sources Inform This Crime Statistics Guide?
Episode details come from our Las Vegas Playbook video with Daniel Pittman and Ray San Nicolas, published October 19, 2026. Every source below was opened in a browser that day. The calls-for-service shares are our grouping of LVMPD's public 30-day file as it stood on October 19, using LVMPD's disposition labels; treat them as a description of that file. Photos are frames from our own video; the two B-roll frames marked "Illustration" are not photographs of a specific place.
- NREG Las Vegas Playbook episode: the context-first advice, the map example and the video walk.
- LVMPD history of the department: the 1973 consolidation and LVMPD's jurisdiction.
- LVMPD statistics page and report definitions: the weekly report for the week ending October 11, 2026, and its calls-for-service and NIBRS counting rules.
- LVMPD Calls for Service, Last 30 Days dataset, Reported NIBRS Crimes dataset and I.D.F. code sheet: call dispositions, location types and code labels.
- LVMPD Find Your Station and report copies: report access and the $13.00 fee.
- North Las Vegas police records: report and research fees.
- Henderson Police crime statistics: NIBRS offenses per incident.
- Nevada Crime Statistics portal: 2025 agency themes, clearance rates, larceny loss values and stolen and recovered property.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, NIBRS resources and caution against ranking: 2025 Table 8, the NIBRS transition and ranking caveats.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics, Criminal Victimization, 2024 and the National Crime Victimization Survey: shares of crimes reported to police.
- LVCVA historical tourism statistics: 2025 visitor volume, room inventory and occupancy.
- Nevada Sex Offender Registry conditions of use at sexoffenders.nv.gov (named, not linked, per the registry's note on links), LVMPD sex offender page and the national sex offender website: registry contents and caveats.
- NRS 179B, NRS 40.770 and NRS 205.0835: registry contents and use limits, seller disclosure and theft grading.
- NAR fair housing FAQ on steering, crime and schools: the April 24, 2026 HUD letter and consistent-information guidance.
Agency tools, windows and figures change. Check the date on every number you use, and confirm the current version with the agency before you rely on it.
