Nevada cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Nevada, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Las Vegas city".

The largest place in Nevada is Las Vegas city with 650,873 residents, and the 133 places on this page hold 3,008,205 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $23,182 to $250,001, and median home values range from $52,500 to $2,000,001 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Population in Nevada is tightly clustered: the ten largest places carry 84% of the 3,008,205 residents counted across all 133. Las Vegas city sets the pace and everything outside the top ten is genuinely small, so statewide averages describe the cluster rather than the state. These are mostly very small areas — the median place counts 1,043 residents. Rankings at the bottom of this list are within each other's margin of error, so treat close positions as ties.

On housing, Nevada tracks the national pattern closely: $324,900 median home value against $76,151 median income, a ratio of 4.3 versus 3.9 nationally. Median gross rent runs $1,277 including utilities, or about 20% of median household income annually. The statewide midpoint hides real variation, though — that is what the spread below is for.

The internal range is wide but not exceptional: $113,301 at the ninetieth percentile against $44,500 at the tenth, a 2.55× gap. At the edges, Crystal Bay CDP tops the list at $250,001 and Fort McDermitt CDP anchors the bottom at $23,182.

Read the blanks carefully: 31 of 133 rows (23%) have at least one estimate the Census withheld because the local sample was too thin to publish reliably. In a state with 66 places under a thousand residents, that is expected, not an error on this page.

How many places does Nevada have? 133 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. 50% of them have fewer than a thousand residents, so the list is far longer than the number of towns you would recognise by name.

Which Nevada row should I compare mine against? Not the state median — it is pulled by the Nevada core. Compare against places in the same population band, which for most of this list means the entries below the top ten.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.