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Las Vegas The Las Vegas
metropolitan area, also known as the Las Vegas-Paradise-Henderson Metropolitan Statistical
Area, is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, consisting of Clark County.
A central part of the
metropolitan area is the Las Vegas Valley, a 600 sq mi (1,600 km2) basin in which is located the metropolitan area's largest
city, Las Vegas. The area contains the largest concentration of
people in the state. The history of the Las
Vegas metropolitan area largely coincides with the history of the city of
Las Vegas, whose name is sometimes used to denominate the entire region. The
metropolitan area's population was estimated at 1,836,333 in
2007.
As of 2010, the
estimated population had grown to 2,282,708. Outdoor
lighting displays are everywhere on the many tourist destination buildings in
the area. As seen from space, Las Vegas is the brightest city on
earth. The area was
previously settled by Mormon farmers in 1854 and later became the site of a United States Army fort in 1864, beginning a long relationship between southern
Nevada and the U.S. military. Since the 1930s, Las Vegas has generally been
identified as a gaming center as well as a resort destination, primarily targeting adults. Relatively inexpensive real estate prompted a residential population boom in the Las Vegas
Valley in the 1990s and is still expanding in every
direction. Nellis Air Force
Base is located in the northeast corner
of the valley. The ranges that the Nellis pilots use and various other land
areas used by various federal agencies, limit growth of the valley in terms of
geographic area. Due to this reason, the valley has seen more mid- and high-rise
buildings erected. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Department exercises jurisdiction in Clark
County, including areas as far away from Las Vegas as Laughlin, about 90 mi (140 km) from downtown Las
Vegas, but excluding cities with separate police forces such as North Las Vegas,
Henderson, and Boulder City. The Las Vegas
Valley lies in the Mojave Desert. The surrounding land is desert with mountains in the
distance. The Las Vegas
Valley lies in a relatively high-altitude portion of the Mojave Desert, which
tends to produce drastic changes of temperature between seasons, and also
between day and night. The Valley generally averages less than 5 in
(130 mm) of rain annually.
Daily daytime
summer temperatures in July and August are typically around 101 °F
(38 °C) degrees. Very low humidity, however, tempers the effect of these
temperatures, though dehydration, heat exhaustion, and sun stroke can occur after even a limited time outdoors in the summer. The
interiors of automobiles often prove deadly to small children and pets during
the summer and surfaces exposed to the sun can cause first- and second-degree
burns to unprotected skin. July and August
can also be marked by "monsoon season", when moist winds from the Gulf of California soak much of the Southwestern United
States. While not only raising humidity
levels, these winds develop into dramatic desert thunderstorms that can
sometimes cause flash flooding. The driving force
in metropolitan Las Vegas is the tourism industry and the metro area has about 150,000 hotel rooms.
In the past, casinos and
celebrity shows were the two major attractions for the area. Now
shopping, conventions, fine dining, and outdoor beauty are also major forces in attracting
tourist dollars. Over the
past few years, retirees have been moving to the metro area, driving
businesses that support them from housing to health
care. Las Vegas has been
one of the top areas in the nation adversely affected by the recent subprime mortgage
crisis and United States housing market
correction, resulting in a freefall in home
prices and mass foreclosures. As of January 2008, 1.9% of homes in the Las Vegas
area were in the foreclosure process, almost triple the rate of a year
earlier.
The problems, as it was
mostly nationwide, was rampant speculation from house
flippers, who sought quick profits and
never intended to live in the homes they purchased. Also, resetting of many
mortgage rates increased foreclosures. As of April 2008, 51% of the more than
22,000 homes for sale in the area were vacant, according to Las Vegas real
estate research firm SalesTraq. Las Vegas has
expanded its attractiveness to visitors by offering both high-end and affordable
merchandise in many shops and shopping malls. Many hotels on the Las Vegas Strip
also have adjacent shopping malls, giving the Las Vegas metro area the highest
concentration of shopping malls in any four mile stretch of road. In addition to
the malls on the Strip, there are several outlying malls in Las Vegas,
Henderson, and the surrounding area. The monorail, lying somewhat east of the Strip, facilitates north-south travel,
including a station at the Las Vegas Convention
Center. The "First Friday"
celebration, held on the first Friday of each month, exhibits the works of local
artists and musicians in an area just south of downtown, now called the "Arts
District". Income & Housing Costs Numbers: Estimated median household income in 2008: $53,097 (it
was $44,069 in 2000)
Median gross rent in 2008: $1,007. Dec. 2009 cost of living index in Las
Vegas: 91.4 (less than average, U.S. average is 100) ·
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