Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Las Vegas (2025)
Las Vegas's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these LVMPD area commands are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The LVMPD area commands at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Las Vegas LVMPD area commands.
Volume, not a safety rate. LVMPD area command resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the LVMPD area command (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Las Vegas zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same LVMPD area commands as the safest neighborhoods in las vegas list.
- 1Northeast Area Command0/100
- 2Southeast Area Command4/100
- 3Convention Center Area Command31/100
- 4Northwest Area Command36/100
- 5Downtown Area Command40/100
- 6South Central Area Command52/100
- 7Spring Valley Area Command53/100
- 8Bolden Area Command65/100
- 9Summerlin Area Command82/100
- 10Enterprise Area Command100/100
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →