Evictions in Las Vegas: What the Court Numbers Show

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How Many Evictions Are Filed in Las Vegas?

By The Rental Lister · Published November 11, 2026 · Data: Nevada Judiciary annual reports, fiscal 2019 to 2025, and Eviction Lab

Landlords filed 53,341 new summary eviction cases in Clark County’s 11 justice courts in fiscal 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025), about 15 for every 100 renter households. That is 17% below the fiscal 2023 peak and about a third above fiscal 2019, before the pandemic.

Key Numbers

• 53,341new summary eviction cases filed in Clark County in fiscal 2025Nevada Judiciary, FY2025 appendix, Table B6-2
• 42,277of them at Las Vegas Justice Court; 62,701 statewideNevada Judiciary, FY2025 appendix, Table B6-2
• 14.7cases filed per 100 renter households in Clark CountyOur calculation: court filings and Census ACS 2025
• 25% lowerClark County filings in January to September 2026 than Eviction Lab’s 2023–2024 baselineEviction Lab, updated October 1, 2026

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39,715

64,581

53,341

2019202020212022202320242025

Fiscal years run July to June: 2025 means July 2024 to June 2025. Fiscal 2020 and 2021 overlap the COVID-19 eviction moratoriums. Source: Nevada Judiciary annual report statistical appendices, Table B6-2; the Clark County figure is our sum of its 11 justice courts.

Falling, but Not Back to Where It Was

Filings rose sharply after the pandemic moratoriums ended and peaked at 64,581 in Clark County in fiscal 2023. They fell 14% in fiscal 2024 and another 3.9% in fiscal 2025. Even so, fiscal 2025 was 34% above fiscal 2019 (39,715).

The decline has continued into 2026. Eviction Lab at Princeton University, which tracks filings month by month, counted 30,916 filings in Clark County from January to September 2026, 25% below its baseline (the 2023–2024 average), including 3,799 in September. The Nevada Judiciary’s fiscal 2026 report has usually appeared around December; we will update this page when it does.

What Counts as an Eviction

• Notice: the landlord’s written notice to pay or leave. No public count exists.
• New summary eviction case: a court case opened when the landlord files. This is what our numbers count.
• Reopened case: an earlier case where someone asks the court to change or enforce a judgment. Not counted here.
• Disposition: a case the court closed during the year. Not a filing.
• Lockout: the constable removing the tenant. No public count is published.

So a filing is not the same as a lockout, and the rate of 14.7 per 100 counts cases, not households: some households are filed against more than once. Eviction Lab puts the share of repeat (“serial”) filings in Clark County at 29% and estimates that 10% of renter households were threatened with eviction in the past 12 months.

Why You May Have Seen 78,000

Some reports have described about 78,000 eviction filings in Nevada in fiscal 2025, about 54,000 of them at Las Vegas Justice Court, and nearly 85,000 in fiscal 2024. Those figures match the courts’ dispositions, the cases closed during the year (78,033, 53,634 and 85,078). New filings were 62,701, 42,277 and 64,437. Closed cases include cases filed in earlier years and reopened cases, so they are not a count of new evictions.

What Changed in Nevada Law in 2025

• The summary eviction process was not rewritten. Governor Joe Lombardo vetoed AB 283, a summary eviction overhaul, on June 5, 2025 (veto letter), and AB 201, which would have sealed eviction records automatically, on June 2, 2025.
• Money for diversion. AB 475, signed June 10, 2025, put $21 million into eviction diversion and rental assistance, including $15 million for Clark County. The county’s first report on that spending is due December 18, 2026.
• Diversion reaches more courts. From February 2, 2026, Clark County’s eviction diversion program expanded to the Henderson and North Las Vegas justice courts for tenants aged 62 and over and people receiving SSI for a disability (Clark County).

For the steps and deadlines of the process itself, see our guide to the Nevada eviction process.

What This Means for Owners

• Filings are common here. About one case a year for every seven renter households. Plan for the possibility before you lease, not after.
• Most of the risk is decided before the lease is signed. Written screening criteria applied the same way to every applicant, with income and rental history verified at the source. See tenant screening criteria in Nevada.
• Act on the first missed payment. A correctly served notice keeps a late month from becoming three. Our breakdown of what an eviction costs in Las Vegas shows where the money goes.
• This is general information, not legal advice. For your own case, speak with a Nevada attorney.

Our Record

Mark Lister has been to eviction court 14 times and never lost, and no tenant The Rental Lister has placed has been evicted in the last two years. Screening lowers the odds of an eviction; it cannot remove them. Our eviction services page explains how a case runs with us, and the Eviction Guarantee is set out on our guarantees page.

Method and Sources

New filings are the “Landlord Tenant (Summary Eviction)” column of Table B6-2, Civil Caseload Processed by Justice Courts, in each year’s Nevada Judiciary annual report statistical appendix (the column was headed “Unlawful Detainer” in fiscal 2019). We count new cases only, not reopened cases or dispositions. The Clark County figure is our sum of the county’s 11 justice courts: Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Boulder, Bunkerville, Goodsprings, Laughlin, Mesquite, Moapa, Moapa Valley and Searchlight. The appendix links for each year are in the table above.

The rate per 100 renter households divides fiscal 2025 filings by the 363,507 renter households in Clark County in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 2025 (table B25003). The court year (July to June) and the survey year do not line up exactly. Eviction Lab’s own rate for Clark County, 12% over October 2025 to September 2026, uses a different period and the 2024 household count.

• Nevada Judiciary, FY2025 annual report statistical appendix: nvcourts.gov/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/49263/2025_Annual_Report_Appendix_web.pdf
• Las Vegas Justice Court, Annual Report 2025: cms8.revize.com/revize/repository/clarkcountyjc/Annual%20Report%202025.pdf
• Eviction Lab, Las Vegas eviction tracking: evictionlab.org/eviction-tracking/las-vegas-nv/
• Clark County, eviction diversion program expansion, January 28, 2026: www.clarkcountynv.gov/news/012826-eviction-diversion-program-expansion
• AB 475 (2025), enrolled text: www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB475_EN.pdf

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