Searchlight, Nevada.
Typical home $268,853 (+4.3% in a year). Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$255 (+22%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $11,161 +4%
- $257,692$268,853 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Searchlight$1,411
- Nevada$2,313
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Searchlight, NV rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Searchlight, Clark County, Nevada
Searchlight, in Clark County, had 445 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Clark County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clark County work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Searchlight is a very small desert community in the southern tip of Nevada, with far fewer people than most towns and a quiet, spread-out feel. Typical home values sit well below what many buyers expect for the Las Vegas area, and few adults here hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and almost never snowy, summers are very hot, and the rain is scant, as in most of the Mojave Desert.
Work. Residents mostly work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across Clark County, some of the largest workplaces are Clark County Schools, Caesars Palace and MGM Resorts International. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Avi Kwa Ame National Monument is a protected area a short drive away, and the Boulder City Conservation Easement, also protected land, is a short drive away too. Lake Mohave, a reservoir, is a longer drive away and suits anyone who likes time by the water. Together they make this a place for open-country outings rather than crowds.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Clark County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clark County had 1,142,466 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 53° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 72°. About 8 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Searchlight weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clark County
- Clark County SchoolsSchool district34,590FTE
- Fontainebleau Las VegasCasino hotels7,924
- Caesars Palace7,352
- MGM Resorts InternationalCasino hotels6,107
- MGM Resorts InternationalCasino hotels5,978
- Clark County5,922
- University of Nevada-Las VegasUniversity or college5,904
- Southwest AirlinesScheduled passenger air transportation5,187
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,598 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 362,676 people in all across the county; Searchlight has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Searchlight’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Clark County and the Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV metro.
Searchlight home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Searchlight$268,853
- Nevada$440,739
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Searchlight address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Searchlight — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.