Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas population, 2020 to 2024

Las Vegas added 31,159 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.8%. In the latest year it moved by +12,292. Among 12 Nevada places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 6th; the median place changed by +4.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Nevada has 41,828 people, so Las Vegas is 16.2 times that size.

Las Vegas covers 141.87 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 4,786 people per square mile of land. The median Nevada place of 5,000+ has 1,876, so Las Vegas is denser than the typical town.

What county Las Vegas is in

All of Las Vegas's residents live in Clark County, which had 2,398,871 residents in 2024. Las Vegas holds 28.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Las Vegas

20 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Las Vegas by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 89101, 89102, 89104, 89106, 89107, 89108, 89110, 89117, 89124, 89128, 89129, 89130, 89131, 89134, 89138, 89143, 89144, 89145, 89146, 89149. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Las Vegas is

The Census internal point of Las Vegas is at 36.233500, -115.264000. Carson City, the capital, is 318.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Los Angeles, CA (3,878,704 people), 234.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is North Las Vegas, NV, 10.5 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 718 m (2,356 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Las Vegas

At 36.23° N, Las Vegas gets about 14 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Las Vegas daylight page.

Places near Las Vegas

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nevada, measured between internal points. The closest is North Las Vegas, 10.5 miles away, with 294,034 people.