Nevada Population

Nevada (U.S. state abbreviation is 'NV') is the western state of United States, bordered by Oregon and Idaho to the north, Utah to the east, California to the west and south, Arizona to the south-west. The state name Nevada comes from Sierra Nevada, a Spanish term meaning snow covered mountain range. Carson city is the state capital of Nevada, other top cities of Nevada are Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Reno and Sunrise Manor. Nevada population in 2020 is estimated to be 3.1 million, ranks 33rd populous state in US. Nevada is the seventh largest state with 110,577 square miles(286,382 sq km) in the United States. Nevada is popular for hot springs with more than 300 occurring naturally.

Image Source: People gathering in Reno at Northern Nevada, Apr 2017

The population of Nevada state in 2019 is 3 million with change of 2.13% compared to 2.09% in 2018.

Year	Population	% Change
2010	2,702,464
2011	2,712,799	0.38
2012	2,744,566	1.17
2013	2,776,972	1.18
2014	2,819,012	1.51
2015	2,868,666	1.76
2016	2,919,772	1.78
2017	2,972,405	1.80
2018	3,034,392	2.09
2019*	3,099,025	2.13
2020*	3,164,567	2.16 *

Source : Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2018

Nevada Population by Race & Groups

In terms of US state of Nevada population by race, 58.9% are White Americans, 7.7% are Black Americans, 24.8% are Hispanic/Latino, 7.1% are Asians, 0.6% are NHPI, 1% are AIAN.
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander are 19,019 people, 7,432 are Native Hawaiian, 4,034 Guamanian or Chamorro, 4,174 Samoan.
Total Hispanic or Latino's of Nevada state are 8,14,305 people, out of these 6,18,822 are Mexicans, 27,113 Puerto Ricans, 28,758 Cuban.
American Indian and Alaska Native are 32,426, 1,632 Cherokee tribals, 419 Chippewa tribal group, 1,930 Navajo, 706 Sioux tribal groups.
Total Asian Population in Nevada state is 232,502 persons, out of these 13,252 are Asian Indian, 33,603 are Chinese(except Taiwanese), 1,062 Bangladeshi, 127 Bhutanese, 852 Burmese, 1,475 Cambodian, 1,21,410 Filipino, 197 Hmong, 694 Nepalese, 667 Indonesian, 10,824 Japanese, 14,867 Korean, 2,472 Laotian, 773 Sri Lankan, 118 Malaysian, 95 Mongolian, 21 Okinawan, 1,420 Pakistani, 1,042 Taiwanese, 6,639 Thai and 11,935 are Vietnamese.

Total Population	2,887,725	Percent
White	1,936,453	67.06%
Black or African American	253,013	8.76%
American Indian and Alaska Native	32,426	1.123%
Cherokee tribal grouping	1,632	0.057%
Chippewa tribal grouping	419	0.015%
Navajo tribal grouping	1,930	0.067%
Sioux tribal grouping	706	0.024%
Asian Population	232,502	8.05%
Asian Indian	13,252	0.46%
Chinese	34,645	1.20%
Filipino	121,410	4.20%
Japanese	10,824	0.37%
Korean	14,867	0.51%
Vietnamese	11,935	0.41%
Other Asian Population	25,569
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	19,019	0.66%
Native Hawaiian	7,432	0.257%
Guamanian or Chamorro	4,034	0.140%
Samoan	4,174	0.145%
Other Pacific Islander	3,379
Some other race	279,977
Hispanic or Latino	814,305	28.20%
Mexican	618,822	21.43%
Puerto Rican	27,113	0.94%
Cuban	28,758	1.00%
Other Hispanic or Latino	139,612

Source: US Census 2017(Table B03002)

Top Cities of Nevada

Rank	Cities	Population(2018)
1	Las Vegas	644,644
2	Henderson	310,390
3	Reno	250,998
4	North Las Vegas	245,949
5	Sparks	104,246
6	Carson	55,414

Population Pyramid

Source: 2017 US Census Estimates: Population In Five Year Age-Group

Languages spoken in NV

English is the Official language of NV state, The languages spoken at home are, 69.5% are English, 21% is Spanish language, European languages are spoken by 2.4%, 5.8% speak Asian languages.
European language speakers are 4,098 Italian, 3,840 Portuguese, 8,375 German, 7,970 French (including Cajun), 1,390 speak Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages. 1,602 speak Greek, 4,902 Russian, 1,889 Polish, 3,594 Serbo-Croatian, 4,007 Ukrainian or other Slavic languages and 3,264 Armenian.
Asian Indian languages speakers include 865 speak Gujarati, 3,599 Hindi, 1,567 Urdu, 1,984 Punjabi, 964 Telugu, 817 Tamil, 900 Malayalam/Kannada, or other Dravidian languages. 1,220 Bengali, 2,158 Nepali/Marathi, or other Indic languages, 3,900 Other Indo-European languages.
Austronesian languages include 9,680 speak Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages, 535 Haitian, 5,698 Arabic, 2,417 Hebrew, 4,416 Persian (including Farsi, Dari).
African languages include 10,534 Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages, 1,001 Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa, 1,575 Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa.
People from Mid and East Asia speak, 28,617 Chinese (including Mandarin, Cantonese), 6,301 Japanese, 11,739 Korean, 80 Hmong, 9,055 Vietnamese, 1,084 Khmer, 7,632 Thai/Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages, 79,449 Tagalog (including Filipino), 1,794 speak other languages of Asia.
Native languages include 810 speak Navajo, 1,917 Other Native languages of North America.

Languages	Population	Percentage
Speak only English	1,881,829	69.53
Spanish Language	575,226	21.25
European Language	65,175	2.41
Asian Languages	158,112	5.84
Other Languages	26,176	0.97

Source: US Census 2017(Table S1601)

Education

Nevada state High school and College level education stats as per table below.

Population 18 to 24 years		249700	128181	121519
		Total	Male	Female
	Less than high school graduate	43844	25181	18663
	High school graduate (includes equivalency)	91382	50919	40463
	Some college or associates degree	101232	47044	54188
	Bachelors degree or higher	13242	5037	8205
Population 25 years and over		1968023	979456	988567
	Less than 9th grade	116412	58118	58294
	9th to 12th grade, no diploma	162406	82543	79863
	High school graduate (includes equivalency)	556851	282956	273895
	Some college, no degree	506805	251455	255350
	Associates degree	159428	73662	85766
	Bachelors degree	306611	150528	156083
	Graduate or professional degree	159510	80194	79316

White		1118472	567744	550728
	High school graduate or higher	1042335	528946	513389
	Bachelors degree or higher	316432	164864	151568
Black or African		160803	79193	81610
	High school graduate or higher	142217	69964	72253
	Bachelors degree or higher	27605	11817	15788
American Indian or Alaska Native alone		21469	10302	11167
	High school graduate or higher	17764	8481	9283
	Bachelors degree or higher	2203	1013	1190
Asian		174917	74496	100421
	High school graduate or higher	156499	67744	88755
	Bachelors degree or higher	66131	28344	37787
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander		12099	6222	5877
	High school graduate or higher	10833	5431	5402
	Bachelors degree or higher	1499	607	892
Hispanic or Latino Origin		446097	225849	220248
	High school graduate or higher	285853	142790	143063
	Bachelors degree or higher	41680	19350	22330

Source: US Census 2017(Table S1501)

Disability

Nevada state disability statistics as per table below:

Total civilian non-institutionalized population	370381
Male	183957
Female	186424
	-
White	267663
Black or African American	34450
American Indian and Alaska Native alone	5808
Asian	21256
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	2349
Some other race	26330
DISABILITY TYPE
With a hearing difficulty	116617
With a vision difficulty	91018
With a cognitive difficulty	129861
With an ambulatory difficulty	196264
With a self-care difficulty	71616
With an independent living difficulty	119863

Counties of Nevada

As on 2017 census estimates, Nevada state is divided into 16 counties and 1 City, Clark is the populous County with 2,231,647, followed by Clark County with 2,231,647, Lyon County with 55,808, and Carson City population is 55,414.

County	Population 2017	Population 2018	% Change	Rank 2017	Rank 2018
Churchill County	23,989	24,440	1.9	8	8
Clark County	2,183,310	2,231,647	2.2	1	1
Douglas County	48,018	48,467	0.9	6	6
Elko County	52,371	52,460	0.2	5	5
Esmeralda County	843	826	-2	17	17
Eureka County	1,950	2,003	2.7	16	16
Humboldt County	16,702	16,786	0.5	9	9
Lander County	5,604	5,575	-0.5	12	12
Lincoln County	5,182	5,201	0.4	13	13
Lyon County	53,915	55,808	3.5	4	3
Mineral County	4,454	4,514	1.3	14	14
Nye County	44,051	45,346	2.9	7	7
Pershing County	6,473	6,666	3	11	11
Storey County	4,003	4,029	0.6	15	15
Washoe County	457,333	465,735	1.8	2	2
White Pine County	9,599	9,475	-1.3	10	10
Carson City	54,608	55,414	1.5	3	4