Las Vegas · Drugs & public health

See the trend.

What changed, how much, and over which years.

Explore recorded drug offences and available overdose deaths. Each measure keeps its own definition and geography.

Death figures cover Clark County, Nevada, including areas beyond Las Vegas. Source: CDC/NCHS. Original data are available free from CDC. This use does not imply endorsement by CDC, HHS or the U.S. Government.

01 / Police data

Drug offence trends

Select a measure to inspect its trend. Missing years stay blank; partial years stay separate.

No reviewed police drug trend for Las Vegas yet.

The public crime layer only contains 2025 and 2026. Earlier drug counts are not filled in, and a two-year layer is not treated as a trend.

02 / Public health

Overdose deaths

Deaths are a separate measure. Police counts do not measure overdose deaths or drug use.

Clark County, Nevada · county context

Drug overdose deaths · county residents

Last updated 2026-10-01Reviewed dataset

Latest complete year · 2024924deaths

Year over year+3.0%2023 → 2024

Change since 2020+52.7%2020 → 2024

deaths2024 · 924

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Drug overdose deaths · county residents · deaths · complete years
Year	Value
2020	605
2021	670
2022	668
2023	897
2024	924

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03 / Behind the numbers

Sources & coverage

Last updated 2026-10-01 · accepted source review.

These measures are not added into a drug index or used to rank cities. There is no neighbourhood drug map.

CDC / National Center for Health Statistics · County-level drug overdose death counts — December annual totals

Open source ↗ · Last updated 2026-10-01 (reviewed)

Clark County, Nevada · county context · Public Domain U.S. Government; attribution and non-endorsement notice retained.

Provisional counts may underestimate final totals.