Summerlin South, Nevada

Area Profile

31,354 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Summerlin South, in Clark County.

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How we calculate this

How this area ranks
SchoolsTop 12% of 2,668 cities measured81
Housing affordability3579th of 4,223 cities measured56
Climate4031st of 4,223 cities measured55
Physical resilienceTop 50% of 4,182 cities measured59
AccessTop 41% of 4,226 cities measured94
Economic stability2240th of 4,226 cities measured59
The quick read

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 5.7 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 26% of it.

A typical July reaches 104°F and a typical January falls to 39°F, on thirty-year normals.

A major airport is 10 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
31,354
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$117,035
Top 12% nationally
Density
3,237/sq mi
9.7 sq mi of land
Median age
47.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Clark County
Nevada
Metro area
Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV
Nearest major airport
LAS
10 mi · Harry Reid Intl
Median home value
$672,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

53% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 90% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 88% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$10,289$117,035Top 12%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$7,436$81,026Top 4%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate4.8%Bottom 23%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute24.7 minBottom 39%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher52.6%Top 10%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation58.5%Bottom 43%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$60,800Bottom 17%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,670Bottom 14%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024117k104k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $117,035 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.

44% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 61% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 19.3 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
19.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
44.5%
Top 5% in Nevada
Reading proficiency
61.2%
Top 1% in Nevada
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
West Career & Technical Academy HSClark County1,48223.5
Goolsby Judy & John L ESClark County70717.259%73%
Ober D'Vorre & Hal ESClark County53614.525%45%

100.0% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Nevada’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 2% below the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $2,509 takes 26% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.7 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Cost of living
98.3

Prices here run about 2% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
25.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,509
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$672,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index98.3Bottom 40%of 3,6582023
Home price to income5.75Top 10%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate70.0%Bottom 38%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±61214,709Top 4%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$119$2,509Top 3%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$30,600$672,400Top 7%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.7%Top 15%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate9.4%Bottom 48%of 32,0012024 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 104°F and January a low of 39°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 4.0 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 AIR TERMINAL, 9.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND0.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index101.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation4.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low39°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high104°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

59 / 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. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Clark County records 5.9 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most 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 Summerlin South rather than Summerlin South 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 10 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Harry Reid IntlLAS10 mi14,835 ft
Laughlin/Bullhead IntlIFP80 mi8,501 ft
St George RgnlSGU119 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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Other cities in Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Las VegasClark County660,40058vs Summerlin South
HendersonClark County332,14164vs Summerlin South
North Las VegasClark County278,59555vs Summerlin South
EnterpriseClark County240,464vs Summerlin South
Spring ValleyClark County219,187vs Summerlin South
Sunrise ManorClark County200,218vs Summerlin South
ParadiseClark County185,913vs Summerlin South
WhitneyClark County47,221vs Summerlin South
WinchesterClark County37,081vs Summerlin South
MesquiteClark County22,05957vs Summerlin South
Boulder CityClark County14,91961vs Summerlin South

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
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
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
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.

ZIP codes in Summerlin South

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
8913532,524$121,515