Nevada has America's worst shortage of homes for its poorest renters — 16 affordable homes per 100 households — a 56-minute median drive to rural maternity care, one in four Southern Nevada children food insecure, and a $6.4 billion drinking-water need in the driest state in the nation.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Every measure carries its value, class, geography, year, definition, context and source. Nevada's profile is a study in extremes: the nation's worst low-income rental shortage and one of its longest rural maternity drives sit in the same state as one of its best-kept bridge fleets — the scores follow each instrument, not a state stereotype.
Three honesty notes are printed rather than smoothed over. Broadband: Nevada has had two BEAD plans — a $416M, 51,600-location proposal approved in January 2025 and then rescinded, and the smaller September 2025 plan of record (≈26,000 locations, ≈$170M of awards, ~64% fiber). Both are printed so the reduction is visible. Hospitals: only CHQPR's screen is printed — a Chartis-based cross-check for Nevada could not be verified from a fetched source, and that limitation is stated in the category rather than filled with an unsourced second opinion. Food: the verified Map the Meal Gap figures are for Southern Nevada (Three Square's four-county area, where most Nevadans live) and are labelled with that geography; no statewide rate was verified, so none is printed.
Traffic is likewise printed by metro and vintage: Las Vegas–Henderson from TTI's 2025 report (57 hours, 2024) and Reno from the last TTI table that publishes it (26 hours, 2019) — never blended into an invented statewide number. Dams carries the same discipline: the high-hazard count is current (161, ASCE 2025), while the poor-condition count is AP's 2019 analysis, printed with its vintage because no fresher verified count exists. Power uses the Governor's Office of Energy's EIA-based synthesis; LBNL interconnection-queue figures for Nevada were not verified and are named as a gap in the category's fine print.