Compare Nevada sheriff department costs
Sheriff department cost and staffing across all 17 counties. Click a column header to sort. Hover a column header to see what it measures. Data as of 2026-08-12.
| County | Population | Budget | $/resident | Sworn / 100k res | Custody / 100k res | Beds / 100k res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carson City | 58,249 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Churchill County | 25,409 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Clark County | 2,265,926 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Douglas County | 49,476 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Elko County | 53,600 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Esmeralda County | 980 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Eureka County | 1,622 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Humboldt County | 17,266 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lander County | 5,728 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lincoln County | 4,507 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lyon County | 59,435 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mineral County | 4,568 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nye County | 51,698 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pershing County | 6,587 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Storey County | 4,095 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Washoe County | 486,674 | — | — | — | — | — |
| White Pine County | 8,997 | — | — | — | — | — |
A note on data vintages and definitions. This table covers 17 jurisdictions: Nevada's 16 counties plus Carson City, an independent consolidated municipality (a county-equivalent formed in 1969 by the merger of the former Ormsby County and the city of Carson City), which elects its own sheriff. Population is the US Census Bureau's 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Sheriff staffing is not currently loaded for Nevada, so the staffing columns show a dash throughout this table. They previously carried the US Census Bureau's Census of Governments Employment 2022 figure, which counts a county government's police protection and corrections employment by function code rather than by agency. That total includes the county probation department, the coroner and the crime lab, and it excludes the sheriff's own court services staff, so it does not describe a sheriff's office. Staffing will return here when a county-published figure is loaded. County jail data has not yet been loaded for Nevada, so the jail column shows "—" for all 17 jurisdictions. Nevada has no state agency with authority to inspect county or city jails or set facility standards; under NRS Chapter 211, each county's Board of County Commissioners inspects its own jail quarterly instead. The eventual source for this site is expected to be the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics Annual Survey of Jails, the applicable machine-readable source for Nevada county jails in the absence of a state-level equivalent. Sheriff department budget data has not yet been loaded for Nevada. Sheriff names were collected from the Nevada Association of Counties 2026 directory and machine-verified against county sources in July 2026. Clark County's sheriff heads the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, a merged city-county agency created under the NRS 280 metropolitan police framework, but remains the elected chief law enforcement officer of the department under NRS 280.121. Eureka County's officeholder is listed Sheriff-Acting in the source directory rather than as an elected incumbent.