Renters vs Owners in Las Vegas: 2025 Census Data
40.7% of Clark County households rent, against 34.7% nationally.
Renter share by city, how many renters live in houses, median rent and rent burden, from the 2025 American Community Survey.
Data on Las Vegas Rentals, With the Sources Shown
Short studies on the questions owners, renters and reporters ask
How many people rent here? How often are evictions filed? How long do renters stay? Public data answers many of these questions, but it is spread across the Census Bureau, the courts and private trackers, and the same figure is sometimes quoted in different ways. Each study below pulls the official figures together, explains what they count and links every number to its source.
Evictions in Las Vegas: What the Court Numbers Show
53,341 new eviction cases in Clark County in fiscal 2025, about 15 per 100 renter households.
Filings by year since fiscal 2019 from the Nevada courts, what counts as an eviction, and what changed in 2025.
How Many Las Vegas Rentals Sit Empty? Rental Vacancy in 2026
7.5% Las Vegas metro rental vacancy rate in the third quarter of 2026, about the national rate.
Vacancy since 2019 from two Census surveys, what Clark County’s 96,588 empty homes are, and how long apartments now take to lease.
Have Las Vegas Rents Gone Up? Two Years of Rent Data
+3.1% Zillow single-family asking rents in Las Vegas over the two years to September 2026, while apartment rents fell.
Every Las Vegas rent index side by side, why they disagree, and what renewals and new leases show.
How Long Do Las Vegas Renters Stay?
50.9% of Clark County renter households moved into their home in 2023 or later.
How long Las Vegas renters stay, houses against apartments, and what the big single-family landlords report nationally.
Why Tenants Move Out in Las Vegas: What Complaints and Surveys Show
35% of 187 negative reviews of Las Vegas valley property managers mention repairs.
What unhappy renters complain about, why they say they left, and what renter surveys add. Complaints, not a survey of tenants.
Renters With Pets in Las Vegas: The Numbers
38.1% of Las Vegas renter households have a pet, yet only 45% of local Zillow listings allowed pets in 2024.
Pet ownership among renters, pet-friendly listings and how fast they rent, what pets cost renters, and Nevada rules including assistance animals.
Do Las Vegas Tenants Pay Rent on Time? What the Data Shows
14.2% of adults in Nevada renter homes were behind on rent in the last official reading (2024), level with the U.S.
Why there is no reliable current Las Vegas figure, what national surveys show, how sharply arrears track income, and what payment data says about late versus unpaid rent.
Getting the Security Deposit Back: What the Data Shows
42% of U.S. renters who moved got their whole deposit back; 20% got none.
Deposit returns and move-out disputes from national surveys, deposit sizes for houses and apartments, the FTC case, and Nevada's rules under NRS 118A.242.
Rental Scams in Las Vegas: What the Numbers Show
4th Nevada’s rank among the states for fraud reports to the FTC per resident in 2024.
Federal and industry rental-scam figures, why they disagree, where scams start and how to spot a fake listing.
Self-Managed vs Property-Managed Rentals: What the Data Shows
50.5% of U.S. single-unit rentals were managed by their owners in 2024 (our calculation from Census data).
How many owners self-manage, the hours it takes, what a manager costs, and what eviction research does and doesn’t show.
More studies are on the way.
How We Work
- Official and named sources only: the Census Bureau, the Nevada courts, and trackers such as Eviction Lab. Every figure links to its source and gives its period.
- Where sources disagree, we say so and explain why.
- Our own calculations are labeled as ours, with the inputs shown.
- Spotted an error? Tell us and we will correct it and note the change on the page.
Using Our Data
Each study’s data is free to download as a CSV and free to use with credit to The Rental Lister and a link to the study (CC BY 4.0). Reporters can reach Mark Lister, founder of The Rental Lister, at 702.278.4781.
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