89109Paradise, Nevada

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 89109.

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How this area ranks
Housing affordability6616th of 6,685 published ZIP areas23
Climate6550th of 6,789 published ZIP areas54
Physical resilience3325th of 6,709 published ZIP areas58
AccessTop 43% of 6,791 published ZIP areas95
Economic stability6552nd of 6,742 published ZIP areas21
The quick read

Housing costs more relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 32% of median household income and the median home is 10.2 times it.

A typical July reaches 105°F and a typical January falls to 41°F, on thirty-year normals.

A major airport is 4 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
6,504
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$53,684
Bottom 20% nationally
Density
1,577/sq mi
4.1 sq mi of land
Median age
45.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Paradise
Nevada
Metro area
Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV
Nearest major airport
LAS
4 mi · Harry Reid Intl
Median home value
$546,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

40% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 79% of measured US ZIP areas.

Median household income of $53,684 is below 80% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$16,117$53,684Bottom 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$15,531$68,995Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate27.9%Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute28.6 minTop 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher40.2%Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation60.2%Bottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$60,800Bottom 22%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,670Bottom 17%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202455k40k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $53,684 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Waiters and Waitresses36,160$27,110
Fast Food and Counter Workers36,150$31,950
Retail Salespersons33,760$33,720
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand29,590$38,940
General and Operations Managers27,290$97,290
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners26,480$39,310

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,442 takes 32% of median household income, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 10.2 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
32.2%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
10.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,442
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$546,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income10.18Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate34.7%Bottom 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±42711,300Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$337$1,442Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$144,840$546,500Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income32.2%Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate70.4%Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 105°F and January a low of 41°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 4.2 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 64, in the Moderate band, and about 40 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station LAS VEGAS MCCARRAN AP, 4.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND0.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index101.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation4.2"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low41°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high105°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 100402024 calendar year
Median air quality index64.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
64
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
101
90th percentile index
Days above 100
40
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

58 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, wildfire and landslide.

WildfireElevated
EarthquakeElevated
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, inland flooding, hail, lightning, avalanche, strong wind, winter weather, volcanic activity, drought, tornado, cold wave.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Clark County records 5.9 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 14.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 30.1 per 100,000 residents in Clark County.

Homicide
5.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
30.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
17.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Clark County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 89109 rather than 89109 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 4 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Harry Reid IntlLAS4 mi14,835 ft
Laughlin/Bullhead IntlIFP76 mi8,501 ft
St George RgnlSGU111 mi9,300 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

89109 vs Paradise

How this ZIP area compares with Paradise as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

89109
Paradise
Median household income
$53,684
vs
$59,190
Per capita income
$68,995
vs
$34,754
Population density
1,577/sq mi
vs
4,384/sq mi
Median home value
$546,500
vs
$384,200
Median gross rent
$1,442
vs
$1,372
Homeownership rate
34.7%
vs
41.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher
40.2%
vs
24.1%
Poverty rate
27.9%
vs
17.6%
Median age
45.6
vs
39.3

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.