Crime & Safety in Las Vegas
Las Vegas's crime trend is real and broadly positive -- homicides fell 22% in 2025 to 90, the first time below 100 in decades, alongside declines across nearly every other major crime category, with the improving trend continuing into 2026 (violent crime down 8.2% in the first half of the year).
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Learn moreA Real, Sustained, Multi-Category Improvement
Homicides fell to 90 in 2025 -- a 22% decline from 2024 (some sources cite 21%), falling below 100 for the first time in decades and representing a 43% decrease since the current police chief took office. Violent crime overall was down 4.3% and property crime down 9.4% year-over-year, with robbery down 16.2%, burglary down 15.2%, motor vehicle theft down 14.1%, and aggravated assault down 5.4% -- a genuinely broad, multi-category improvement, not a single-metric anomaly.
The Trend Continued Into 2026
Reported violent crime in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's jurisdiction fell a further 8.2% during the first half of 2026, indicating this is a sustained, ongoing trend rather than a one-year blip.
Officer-Involved Shootings Also Fell Sharply
Seven officer-involved shootings were logged in 2025 -- the fewest since 1991, and a 58% reduction from the 17 incidents recorded in 2024. This is disclosed as a real, positive data point alongside the broader crime-decline trend, distinct from (though related to) the department's own use-of-force record.
A Real, Disclosed Exception: Traffic Fatalities
Even amid the broader positive crime trend, local coverage specifically flagged traffic fatalities as remaining a major concern in Las Vegas -- a real, disclosed exception worth stating rather than letting the overall positive crime headline obscure it, similar in kind to how this dataset discloses similar single-category exceptions for other metros.
Real Neighborhood-to-Neighborhood Variance Exists
As detailed on the best-areas topic page, Summerlin is specifically cited with violent crime rates roughly 60% below the citywide average, and Henderson consistently posts the lowest violent-crime rates among Clark County's large jurisdictions, having been ranked among the 10 safest large US cities for multiple years. Citywide averages understate real, meaningful safety variation by specific neighborhood.
Key takeaways
- Las Vegas's crime trend is genuinely positive and broad: homicides down 22% in 2025 to 90 (below 100 for the first time in decades), with declines across violent crime (-4.3%), property crime (-9.4%), robbery, burglary, motor vehicle theft, and aggravated assault.
- The improving trend continued into 2026, with violent crime down a further 8.2% in the first half of the year.
- Officer-involved shootings fell to 7 in 2025 -- the fewest since 1991, down 58% from 2024.
- A real, disclosed exception: traffic fatalities remain a specifically flagged concern even amid the broader positive crime trend.
- Real neighborhood variance exists -- Summerlin's violent crime rate runs roughly 60% below the citywide average, and Henderson consistently ranks among the safest large US cities.
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