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- Nevada No. 2 in 18- to 64-year-olds without health insurance
- Monday, June 15, 2009
- Percentage in each state, age 18 to 64, without health insurance coverage of any kind in 2008.
- Comparing home sale prices with a year earlier
- Monday, June 8, 2009
- The maps below show median sale prices for single-family homes in each valley ZIP code from March 1 to May 31 of this year, and how they compare to prices during the same period in 2008.
- Where recent out-of-state homebuyers are based
- Monday, June 1, 2009
- Although most sales in the local real estate market in 2009 have been short sales or foreclosure properties, movement in the market isn't being propelled solely by bargain-hunting investors.
- Demographic changes in Clark County
- Tuesday, May 26, 2009
- Clark County’s population has grown by more than one-third since 2000, though that rapid growth waned in 2008.
- Vacant business addresses on the rise
- Monday, May 18, 2009
- Nearly 13 percent of all business addresses in Clark County had been empty for at least three months straight in March.
- Have long-term vacancies increased more in your neighborhood than in others?
- Monday, May 11, 2009
- Long-vacant residences are on the rise in the Las Vegas Valley.
- Nevada aircraft collisions with animals
- Monday, May 4, 2009
- Last month the FAA released records detailing about 100,000 reported wildlife collisions with aircraft in the United States since 1990.
- Low turnout for primary vote
- Monday, April 20, 2009
- Residents of Clark County’s cities turned out sparingly in most precincts for the primary vote on April 7. About 1 in 10 residents who could vote cast a ballot.
- A history of unemployment in Nevada
- Monday, April 13, 2009
- Although initial unemployment insurance claims have dropped from a high of nearly 9,000 per week in January, they’re still about 50 percent higher than in the same week last year.
- Housing collapse evident in falling tax appraisal values
- Monday, April 6, 2009
- This map shows the average change in tax appraisal value between the close of rolls for fiscal 2009-10 and the previous year for single family homes in the valley, by ZIP code.
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