#1Mesquite
Clark County20,456 in 2020·24,001 in 2025·+3,545 people
Mesquite, #1 on this list · Photo: Stan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0Nevada rankings · Growth
Fastest-growing towns in Nevada
Mesquite has grown fastest of Nevada’s 15 towns of 2,500+: up 17.3% from 20,456 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 24,001 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +3.2%; 2 of the 15 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+17.3%
#2Fernley
Lyon County22,898 in 2020·26,214 in 2025·+3,316 people
#3North Las Vegas
Clark County259,479 in 2020·296,653 in 2025·+37,174 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in Nevada?
Mesquite (Clark County): it grew 17.3%, from 20,456 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 24,001 in July 2025. Fernley (+14.5%) and North Las Vegas (+14.3%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (15 in Nevada). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the Nevada page.
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