Nevada's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) shows declines on both major offense rates — charts below keep the larger |endpoint| move first.
Declining-window verdict
Nevada's violent crime rate fell 36.0% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 15.6%. The endpoints agree on the broad direction, but the intervening years still matter.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 696.8 in 2015; the lowest was 406.6 in 2024. The latest value lies 0% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 635.1 to 406.6 per 100,000 (-36.0%). Property crime moved from 2639.3 to 2226.3 (-15.6%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate fell 5.6%, compared with -36.0% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 406.6 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 15.5% above. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2016 to 2017: -17.8%. Across the full sequence, 3 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 7 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Rate denominator
The reported population changed from 2,839,099 to 3,267,467 (+15.1%). Rates account for that denominator change; raw offense counts do not. This is one reason a count and a per-100,000 rate can move by different percentages over the same years.
Nevada's violent rate fell 17.8% (-120.5 per 100K) from 2016 to 2017 (676.0 → 555.5) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was jumped 9.7% from 2014 to 2015 (635.1 → 696.8).
Nevada's violent gap vs the US aggregate moved from 74.8% above in 2014 to 15.5% above in 2024 (-59.3 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent | Rate | YoY | Property | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,267,467 | 13,286 | 406.6 | ↓ 6.6% | 72,742 | 2226.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,194,176 | 13,911 | 435.5 | ↓ 4.9% | 81,954 | 2565.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,177,772 | 14,546 | 457.7 | ↑ 6.3% | 76,476 | 2406.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,143,991 | 13,536 | 430.5 | ↓ 8.9% | 70,617 | 2246.1 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,138,259 | 14,833 | 472.7 | ↓ 4.6% | 63,273 | 2016.2 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 3,080,156 | 15,268 | 495.7 | ↓ 12.3% | 72,111 | 2341.1 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 3,034,392 | 17,159 | 565.5 | ↑ 1.8% | 74,510 | 2455.5 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 2,998,039 | 16,655 | 555.5 | ↓ 17.8% | 78,663 | 2623.8 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 2,940,058 | 19,875 | 676 | ↓ 3.0% | 76,165 | 2590.6 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 2,890,845 | 20,144 | 696.8 | ↑ 9.7% | 77,644 | 2685.9 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 2,839,099 | 18,031 | 635.1 | - | 74,931 | 2639.3 |
More in Nevada: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Nevada (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.