Why doesn’t this guide rank Las Vegas neighborhoods?
An earlier version of this page ranked neighborhoods. I replaced it on September 30, 2026 with this how-to. The FBI has a long-standing policy against ranking places on the basis of crime data alone. Its guidance on the proper use of UCR statistics notes that the statistics pair reported crime with jurisdictional population figures only, and lists factors that change crime from place to place, including population density; mobility, commuting patterns and transient factors; and how often residents report crime.
The National Association of REALTORS gives agents the same direction for the question “Is this neighborhood safe?”: ground the answer in objective information, such as statistics from the local police department, give every client the same information, and refer them to the department’s public affairs officer (NAR, FAQs on steering, crime and schools). The rest of this page shows you where those statistics are.
Which police department covers a Las Vegas-area address?
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was created on July 1, 1973, when the Las Vegas Police Department and the Clark County Sheriff’s Department merged. It is responsible for police services within the City of Las Vegas and the unincorporated areas of Clark County (LVMPD history). Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City run their own police departments, and each publishes its own crime data.
| Where the address is | Police agency | Official map or data | What to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Las Vegas, or unincorporated Clark County | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) | LVMPD Open Data Portal (crime maps); weekly crime report | The weekly report breaks reported crime out by area command. LVMPD calls its figures preliminary and subject to revision. |
| City of Henderson | Henderson Police Department | Crime Search map; Crime Statistics page | The map shows the last 90 days; the map page links historic data on the city’s GIS portal. |
| City of North Las Vegas | North Las Vegas Police Department | CrimeMapping.com, North Las Vegas | Linked as “Crime Data” on the department’s page. CrimeMapping.com holds a rolling 180 days and says it is not all-inclusive. |
| Boulder City | Boulder City Police Department | CityProtect agency page | Linked as “Crime Mapping by CITYPROTECT” on the department’s page; offers a crime map and a crime-data download. |
| Agency-wide and statewide totals | FBI and State of Nevada | FBI Crime Data Explorer; Nevada Crime Statistics | Totals for a whole agency’s jurisdiction by year, not a street or subdivision. |
Is the address in city limits or unincorporated Clark County?
Check this before you open a map. The City of Las Vegas points out that it covers only part of the metropolitan area: besides the incorporated cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson, almost everywhere else in the valley is unincorporated Clark County (City of Las Vegas). Go by the jurisdiction, not the city name on a listing.
- Enter the street number and street name in Clark County’s jurisdiction lookup. It was built for business licensing, and it verifies whether an address is in unincorporated Clark County or in Boulder City, Henderson, Las Vegas, Mesquite or North Las Vegas.
- To see the parcel itself, select the property on Clark County’s OpenWeb map.
- If LVMPD covers the address, use its Find Your Station page to identify the area command that serves it. The page links an area-command and sector/beat map and a map by ZIP code, and lists each station’s non-emergency number.
How do you read LVMPD crime data for an address?
LVMPD’s Statistics page links its “crime mapping tool for recent activity” to the LVMPD Open Data Portal. The portal groups NIBRS crime reports into person, property and society crimes, and publishes calls-for-service data separately. Calls for service are records of officers responding to calls for help, documented in LVMPD’s dispatch system, so don’t read them as confirmed crimes.
Read LVMPD’s cautions before you draw conclusions. The portal says LVMPD does not guarantee the completeness of the data and that it is “not intended for compiling statistics or conducting analytics.” The Statistics page says its figures are preliminary, subject to revision, and based on the date the incident occurred. Its weekly crime report lists reported crimes by area command with year-to-date totals, which gives you the trend for the area command around an address.
How do you check reported crime in Henderson?
The Henderson Police Department’s Crime Search map shows the last 90 days of crime data, and the map page links historic data on the city’s GIS open-data portal. The department’s Crime Statistics page says Henderson reports to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System, which captures up to 10 offenses within a single incident, and points readers to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer for the most recent available information.
How do you check North Las Vegas and Boulder City?
The North Las Vegas Police Department’s page links “Crime Data” to CrimeMapping.com’s North Las Vegas map. Read CrimeMapping.com’s FAQ before you rely on it: the site keeps a rolling 180 days of data and updates once a day, calls its content “a representation of crime” that “is not all-inclusive,” lets agencies withhold sensitive crimes, and lets each agency choose whether the time shown is when a crime occurred or when it was reported.
The Boulder City Police Department’s page links “Crime Mapping by CITYPROTECT” to the department’s CityProtect page, which offers a crime map and a crime-data download.
What does the FBI Crime Data Explorer add?
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer publishes crime reported by law enforcement agencies, with state and agency views, downloadable data, and annual tables built from agencies that submitted 12 months of complete offense data. It works at the agency level: it can show how Henderson or LVMPD’s whole jurisdiction changes from year to year, not what happens on one street. Nevada’s own crime statistics site lets you pick a jurisdiction, year and theme.
Mind the reporting change. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program retired its Summary Reporting System and moved to NIBRS-only data collection on January 1, 2021. NIBRS collects data on 52 offenses plus 10 offenses for which only arrests are reported, while the old system counted 10 offenses and 20 arrest-only crimes (FBI NIBRS resources). The Bureau of Justice Statistics notes that 2021 was the first data year for NIBRS-based national estimates (BJS). Compare years collected under the same system.
What can’t crime maps and statistics tell you?
| Limit | What it means for your search |
|---|---|
| Reported incidents only | Police maps count crimes that were reported and recorded. The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey exists to capture crimes both reported and not reported to police. |
| Resident denominators | The FBI notes that its statistics pair reported crime with jurisdictional population figures only, and lists commuting patterns and transient factors among the factors that change crime from place to place (FBI). The LVCVA counted 38,545,700 visitors to Las Vegas in 2025, with a room inventory of 150,300 (LVCVA). Visitors are not in a per-resident rate. |
| Short or shifting time windows | Henderson’s map covers 90 days (HPD), CrimeMapping.com a rolling 180 days (FAQ), and LVMPD’s figures are preliminary and dated by when the incident occurred (LVMPD). |
| Agency boundaries | An agency’s map shows the incidents that agency recorded. CrimeMapping.com notes that an incident can be missing because another agency that doesn’t use the site responded to it (FAQ). |
| Withheld categories and delays | Agencies may ask CrimeMapping.com not to display sensitive crimes, and an incident appears only after the agency enters a report (FAQ). LVMPD does not guarantee the completeness of its open data (LVMPD). |
None of this makes the data useless. It means comparing like with like: the same agency, the same radius, the same period and the same categories for every address on your list. Our guide to reading Las Vegas crime statistics explains calls for service, NIBRS counts and per-capita rates.
Does a gate tell you anything about crime?
Not by itself. A gate is an access-control feature run by a homeowners’ association; it isn’t a crime statistic. The City of Henderson’s HOA map data includes a gate field that marks associations as gated or guard-gated. That tells you what you are buying and what the dues may fund, not what the crime map will show. Pull the same radius and period for a gated address as for any other.
If gate hours, guest entry or cameras matter to you, read the association’s own documents. On a resale, Nevada law requires the seller to give you a resale package that includes the declaration, the bylaws, the association’s rules or regulations and its current operating budget, and you may cancel the purchase contract by written notice until midnight of the fifth calendar day after you receive it (NRS 116.4109).
What should you do besides reading the crime map?
| Step | Where | What to write down |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Confirm the jurisdiction | Clark County jurisdiction lookup | Which city, or unincorporated Clark County, and so which police agency. |
| 2. Pull the agency map | The agency’s map from the table above | The same radius and the same period for every address you compare; counts by category and dates. |
| 3. Add agency-wide context | LVMPD weekly report, HPD statistics or the FBI Crime Data Explorer | The trend for the whole jurisdiction, from the same reporting system year to year. |
| 4. Visit at different times | A weekday morning, an evening and a weekend | Physical conditions only: lighting, traffic, noise, parking, nearby commercial uses. |
| 5. Read the HOA documents | Resale package under NRS 116.4109 | Gate hours, guest entry, camera or patrol provisions in the rules and budget. |
| 6. Ask the agency | LVMPD area command or the department’s public information office | Answers to specific questions about the data you pulled. |
When you visit, note physical conditions such as lighting, traffic and how close the home sits to a busy road or commercial use, rather than impressions of people. After you move in, LVMPD and the Henderson Police Department both offer residents free home security surveys or inspections.
Where can you research Las Vegas homes next?
Our city pages for Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City cover housing and market data. If you are new to the process, start with our buyer resources, the first-time buyer guide or the relocation guide, and search current Las Vegas homes for sale.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which Las Vegas neighborhood has the least crime?
How do I check crime near a specific Las Vegas address?
Is Henderson’s crime data separate from Las Vegas Metro’s?
Are online crime maps complete?
Why can per-resident crime rates mislead near the Strip?
Can I compare this year’s crime numbers with older years?
Will a real estate agent tell me whether an area is safe?
Which sources does this guide use?
Every source below was opened on September 30, 2026. Agencies change their tools; if a link moves, start from the agency’s home page.
- LVMPD, History of the Department: the 1973 merger and LVMPD’s jurisdiction.
- LVMPD, Statistics and LVMPD Open Data Portal: the weekly report, crime maps, data categories and cautions.
- LVMPD, Find Your Station: area commands and non-emergency contacts.
- Henderson Police, Crime Search and Crime Statistics: the 90-day map and NIBRS reporting.
- North Las Vegas Police Department, CrimeMapping.com North Las Vegas and the CrimeMapping.com FAQ: the map and its limits.
- Boulder City Police Department and its CityProtect page.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer, FBI NIBRS resources, BJS on NIBRS and Nevada Crime Statistics: agency-level data and the 2021 reporting change.
- FBI, Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics: Their Proper Use and BJS, National Crime Victimization Survey: why rankings and reported counts mislead.
- City of Las Vegas jurisdiction map, Clark County jurisdiction lookup and Clark County OpenWeb: finding the right agency.
- LVCVA historical visitation statistics: 2025 visitor volume and room inventory.
- NRS 116.4109 and the City of Henderson HOA map data: resale packages and gate records.
- National Association of REALTORS, FAQs on steering, crime and schools, and the free inspections from LVMPD and Henderson Police.
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