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City water profile

Water hardness in Las Vegas

Find official utility reports, understand hardness, and check the water system serving your home in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Utility-reported hardness

280 ppm average

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State comparison
At state median
Evidence comparison rank
#1 of 2
Matched utilities
1
Active health records
0

Your tap water

What does the utility report?

Match the utility name to your water bill. These results describe the utility’s water, not a test at your home. A ZIP can include several water systems.

Las Vegas Valley Water District

280 ppm average

Utility-reported hardness as CaCO₃ · 2026 published summary

Reported average: 280 ppm (16.4 GPG).

The utility summary reports an average of 280 ppm. A range is not provided. This applies to Las Vegas Valley Water District, not every provider with a Las Vegas mailing address.

Read the utility’s source report ↗

2026 Water Quality Summary, page 1, HARDNESS, TOTAL. Source checked Sep 29, 2026.

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Your utility’s measurements and compliance records

These are possible serving systems. A record for one system does not apply to every home in this ZIP. Confirm your provider before interpreting a measurement or notice. Federal records can lag current utility notices.

EPA snapshot: 2026Q2. Historical window begins Jan 1, 2021.

Las Vegas Valley Water District

NV0000090 · Surface water · 1,539,277 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

Read 2026 Water Quality Report (2025 monitoring data) ↗
Measurements (1)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
0.0021 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

14% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025

Violation history (0)

No record returned in this imported window. This is not a guarantee of tap-water safety.

City summary

What the indexed records say

Las Vegas has 18 published ZIP profiles across Clark County. The regional-evidence median is 66 PPM. Its comparison-eligible median is 66 PPM versus 66 PPM statewide.

Among the 2 Nevadacities meeting the comparison standard, Las Vegas ranks #1from highest to lowest. Across all 98 state ZIP profiles, available estimates run from 61to 177 PPM.

The 65.8–118.4 PPM range shows how much the available ZIP estimates vary within the city label.

Hardness distribution

How local ZIP estimates compare

Soft0 ZIPs
Moderately hard18 ZIPs
Hard0 ZIPs
Very hard0 ZIPs

18 of 18 ZIP profiles have a hardness estimate. Bars count ZIP profiles, not households or laboratory samples.

Evidence quality

Distance, dates, and confidence

Median nearest distance
11.9 miles
Profiles with evidence
18/18

Confidence labels

High: 0Moderate: 18Low: 0

Observation window: Aug 24, 2016 to Aug 25, 2022.

ZIP directory

Water reports in Las Vegas

Open a ZIP for site-level provenance and measurements.

ZIP code

89101

Moderately Hard

118.4 PPM

Nearest site
17.4 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89102

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
14 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89104

Moderately Hard

118.4 PPM

Nearest site
18.2 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89106

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
15.2 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89107

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
12.6 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89108

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
11.9 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89117

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
9 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89128

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
9.5 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89129

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
8.8 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89130

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
12.6 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89131

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
13.7 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89134

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
7.2 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89138

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
4.1 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89143

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
12.5 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89144

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
6.4 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89145

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
8.9 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89149

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
10 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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ZIP code

89166

Moderately Hard

65.8 PPM

Nearest site
11 mi
Confidence
Moderate

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Practical next steps

Move from index to evidence

  1. 1. Open your ZIP. Check distance, dates, confidence, and the associated utility.
  2. 2. Read the current CCR. Confirm source water, detections, limits, ranges, and notices.
  3. 3. Use a measured hardness result. Confirm health concerns or treatment sizing with the right method.

Questions people ask

About water in Las Vegas

Is the water hard?

Check the utility-reported result above when available. Nearby environmental samples cannot establish tap-water hardness. Ask your provider or test your tap.

Is the tap water safe?

Compliance history is utility-wide and cannot guarantee conditions at every tap. Check current notices and test when address-specific evidence is needed.

Do I need treatment?

Choose treatment only after confirming the problem at the property. A softener targets hardness; contaminant treatment requires a matching, verified performance claim.