District E . Deep Dive . By the Numbers
By the numbers.
The townships' census counts, the seven-seat commission, and the 2021 redistricting that drew District E. Every figure here is sourced, and the numbers that do not exist are named as such.
The most honest number on this page is the one we refuse to invent. There is no reliable District-E-only population, income, or home-value figure, so this guide does not publish one. What follows is what the public record actually supports, and where it stops.
The numbers that hold up.
A handful of figures explain most of what District E is. Each one is sourced, and each one is labeled for what it actually measures.
Numbers are where a civics guide earns or loses trust. It is easy to write a single confident figure for "District E" and move on. It is harder, and more honest, to say which numbers are township-level, which are county-level, and which simply are not published at the district level at all. This page does the harder version.
Township counts are not the district's population.
District E includes only portions of Paradise, Sunrise Manor, Whitney, and Winchester.2 That means you cannot add up the townships' census populations to get the district's population, and you cannot read any one township's number as the district's. Every figure below is labeled township-level or county-level for exactly this reason.
The four townships, 2020 census.
Whole-township figures from the 2020 U.S. Census. District E draws only portions of each.
Two things stand out. First, the scale: Sunrise Manor and Paradise are each larger than many American cities, yet neither is a city. Second, the diversity: across the four towns, Hispanic or Latino residents make up a large and in places majority share of the population.34 Both facts shape how District E was drawn.
A note on precision: these counts come from the 2020 census place data. Percentages are rounded, and a Hispanic or Latino share is reported "of any race," following the census definition. They describe the whole township, not the slice inside District E.1
One of seven seats.
District E is a single seat on a seven-member board that governs the unincorporated valley.
The Clark County Commission has seven members, each elected from a single geographic district (A through G) on staggered four-year terms.6 District E is one of those seven seats. The board governs the unincorporated areas of the county, which is most of the metro valley, including the townships District E draws from.
How many people is one seat? Divide the county's 2020 population by seven and the average district is about 324,000 residents (2,265,461 divided by 7).7 That is an arithmetic average, not an official per-district figure; the real districts vary, and the 2021 redistricting set them close to one another by design.
Drawn on November 2, 2021.
The current District E lines came from the county's post-census redistricting, and the design was deliberate.
After the 2020 census, Clark County redrew its seven commission districts. The map was approved on November 2, 2021.9 The redistricting balanced the districts close to one another in population and, notably, shaped District E to be the county's second Hispanic-majority district, alongside District D. Coverage at the time described both D and E as just over half Hispanic by population.910
The balance was tight. Reporting on the adopted map put District D at about 317,000 residents and District F near 324,000, with the population deviation across all seven districts held to under about 2 percent, well inside the federal limit.9 The county does not publish a District-E-specific population, but because the seven were balanced so tightly, District E sits in that same narrow band, near the roughly 324,000 ideal. In plain terms: the county drew seven districts of nearly equal size, and made a deliberate choice about representation when it did.
The bigger picture.
District E sits inside a county that is most of Nevada, and is mostly unincorporated.
Clark County recorded 2,265,461 residents in the 2020 census, and its population has since been estimated above 2.4 million.7 The county itself states it is home to more than 2.4 million people and holds about 70 percent of Nevada's total population.8 When the District E seat votes, it is voting inside the government of most of the state's people.
It is also a heavily unincorporated county. Clark County says it serves about 1 million residents in the urban unincorporated areas, the towns like Paradise and Sunrise Manor that have no city of their own.8 Set against the 2020 county total, that is roughly 44 percent of residents (about 1 million of 2.27 million), a derived ratio rather than an officially published percentage.
The numbers we will not invent.
A guide is only as trustworthy as the figures it refuses to make up. Here is what is honestly not available.
You will not find a single headline number on this page for District E's population, its median income, or its median home value. That is not an oversight. Reliable district-level estimates for those figures do not exist, because District E is a composite of partial townships rather than a census place, and the census does not publish income or home-value tables for a custom commission district.1
Plenty of sources will hand you a number anyway, usually by quietly substituting a township or a ZIP code for the district. That is how small errors become confident myths. This guide takes the opposite approach: where a trustworthy district-level figure does not exist, it says so, and points you to the township and county figures that do.
What to use when there is no district-level number.
For population and demographics, use the township-level census figures above, labeled as township-level.1 For your own district and registration, use the county's official district map and the Nevada Secretary of State.11 For county-wide context, use the county's own published totals.8 Each is honest about what it measures.
What the words on the tables mean.
A little census vocabulary goes a long way toward not being fooled by a number.
Most confusion about local figures comes from a few terms that sound interchangeable but are not. A place is not a commission district. A census-designated place is not a city. And a population count is not the same kind of figure as an income estimate. Getting these straight is how you tell a solid number from a misleading one.
Keep those four in mind and most of the traps disappear. When a source quotes "the median income of District E," the first question is simple: where would that table even come from? The honest answer, for now, is that it does not exist.
Why all seven are nearly the same size.
The near-equal district populations are not a coincidence. They are a legal requirement.
The principle is one person, one vote: a vote in one district should carry roughly the same weight as a vote in another, which means the districts have to hold roughly the same number of people. For local districts, courts generally treat a total population deviation of around 10 percent as the outer limit.9
Clark County did far better than the limit. In the 2021 map, the seven districts were balanced to within about 2 percent of one another, around the roughly 324,000 ideal, with reported figures running from about 317,000 (District D) to about 324,000 (District F).9 That is why you cannot infer much about District E from its size alone: by law and by design, it is close to every other district in population. What sets it apart is who lives in it and where its lines run, not how many people it holds.
A county that keeps growing.
The figures are a snapshot of a place still adding people, which is part of why the map gets redrawn.
The 2020 census counted 2,265,461 residents in Clark County, and the county now reports a population above 2.4 million.78 The east-valley townships grew along with it; Whitney, in particular, rose sharply over the prior decade.6 Growth is exactly why districts are redrawn after each census: as people move and multiply unevenly, the lines have to shift to keep the seven seats near-equal.
It is also why a number from one year should never be treated as permanent. The township counts here are a 2020 snapshot. The next census will move them, and the district lines will move with them. A good guide tells you the vintage and lets you watch it change, rather than freezing one year into a fact forever.
Numbers are how a seat keeps its promises.
The reason to be careful with figures is not pedantry. It is accountability.
Budgets, district lines, and service decisions all rest on numbers. If the numbers are wrong or made up, the decisions built on them are too. A resident who knows that District E is one of seven near-equal seats, that its townships are large and heavily Latino, and that no clean district-level income figure exists, is a resident who is hard to mislead.
That is the whole point of a page like this. Not to dazzle with statistics, but to give you a small, solid set of figures you can trust, and to be honest about where the data runs out. A campaign that will tell you a number is missing is a campaign you can check. That is the standard worth holding the seat to.
Trust the labeled numbers, question the clean ones.
Township-level census, the seven-seat structure, the 2021 map, and the county totals are solid and sourced. A single tidy "District E" income or home-value figure is not, and anyone who hands you one should be able to say where it came from. If they cannot, neither should you.1
Fair questions.
The things people actually ask about the numbers.
Where District E sits on the board.
Seven districts, lettered A through G. Two of them are Hispanic-majority, and District E is one.
The Clark County Commission's seven districts are labeled A through G, each one a single seat.6 After the 2020 census, the county drew two of them, District D and District E, to be majority Hispanic, each just over half by population.910 That pairing is the clearest way to place District E among its peers: it is one of the two seats specifically shaped to reflect the valley's Latino communities.
Beyond that, the seven are deliberately similar in size, so District E is not unusually large or small. What distinguishes it is geography and community: a central-to-east-valley seat, drawn from portions of four townships, carrying both working neighborhoods and a slice of the Strip. The number that matters is not its rank among the seven, but the fact that it is one full vote out of seven on everything the county does.
One commissioner, a city's worth of people.
A single District E seat speaks for a population the size of a major city.
Each of the seven districts was balanced near the roughly 324,000 ideal, with reported figures running about 317,000 to 324,000.9 That is not a neighborhood. It is comparable to a midsize American city, and larger than many incorporated cities in Nevada. One person, sitting in one of seven seats, represents all of them at the county level.
It is worth sitting with that ratio. The townships District E draws from are themselves enormous: Sunrise Manor alone counted more than 205,000 residents in 2020, and Paradise more than 191,000.32 A district carved from portions of towns that big is always going to speak for a lot of people through a single vote. That is exactly why who holds the seat, and how reachable they are, matters so much.
Check every number at the source.
Do not take this page's word for it. Each figure links back to a public record you can open.
data.census.gov
The U.S. Census Bureau's data portal, where the township population and demographic figures come from.1
Official district maps
The county's 2021 Political District Maps, the only authority on where the District E lines actually run.12
About Clark County
The county's own page for the headline totals: population, the 70 percent of Nevada, and the unincorporated count.8
Nevada voter search
Confirm your own registration and the districts your address falls in, straight from the Secretary of State.12
The numbers that hold up, in one place.
If you remember five figures, remember these. Each is sourced above.
The caveats, out loud.
Honest data work means putting the asterisks on the page, not hiding them. Here are ours.
Every figure on this page carries a qualifier, and rather than bury those in a footnote, they belong in plain sight. None of these caveats means a number is wrong. They mean we are telling you exactly what each one is, and is not.
That is the entire fine print, in one place. If a future source gives a cleaner district-level figure with a citation you can open, this page should be updated to match. Until then, the labeled numbers above are the honest ones.
More on District E.
The numbers are one part of the story. Here is the rest of the District E hub.
The field guide
The full overview of District E: the office, where it is, how it got here, who lives here, and what the county does.
The Townships
Paradise, Sunrise Manor, Winchester, and Whitney: why none of them is a city, and what the county runs.
Places & Landmarks
UNLV, the airport, the parks, and the north Strip. The places in and around the district, verified and sourced.
Show the math.
I would rather tell you a number is missing than hand you a fake one. The townships are real, the census is real, the 2021 map is real. A tidy "District E earns this much" figure is not, so you will not find one here. If we cannot back a number with a source, we leave it out and say why. That is the standard I want to be held to in office, too.
Every number, shown its work.
Civics should be checkable. Here is where each figure comes from, and where the record stops.
- U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 decennial census place data (township-level populations and Hispanic or Latino shares, via data.census.gov); also the basis for noting that no District-E-only income or home-value tables are published: data.census.gov
- Clark County, District E composition (portions of Paradise, Sunrise Manor, Whitney, Winchester, plus the City of Las Vegas): businessinclarkcounty.com
- Paradise CDP, 2020 Census (total 191,238; Hispanic or Latino 33.5%), per the Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau 2020 Population and Racial Data Report, validated against Census P.L. 94-171: leg.state.nv.us 2020 data report (PDF)
- Sunrise Manor CDP, 2020 Census (total 205,618; Hispanic or Latino 54.6%), Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau 2020 Population and Racial Data Report: leg.state.nv.us 2020 data report (PDF)
- Winchester CDP, 2020 Census (total 36,403; Hispanic or Latino 47.9%), Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau 2020 Population and Racial Data Report: leg.state.nv.us 2020 data report (PDF)
- Whitney CDP, 2020 Census (total 49,061; Hispanic or Latino 38.1%), Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau 2020 Population and Racial Data Report: leg.state.nv.us 2020 data report (PDF)
- Clark County Board of County Commissioners (seven single-member districts, staggered four-year terms): clarkcountynv.gov commissioners
- Clark County total population, 2020 Census 2,265,461 (U.S. Census Bureau, county profile via data.census.gov): data.census.gov Clark County profile
- Clark County, About Clark County (more than 2.4 million residents; about 70% of Nevada; about 1 million in urban unincorporated areas): clarkcountynv.gov about
- Las Vegas Review-Journal and Las Vegas Sun, Clark County's 2021 redistricting (map approved Nov. 2, 2021; District E as second Hispanic-majority district; deviation under ~2%; District D reported ~317,193 and District F ~324,323). Note: the county's official district-map PDFs carry no population figures, so per-district counts are from news coverage, not an official county table. reviewjournal.com . lasvegassun.com
- Nevada Current, Clark County approves new political maps including 2nd Hispanic-majority district: nevadacurrent.com
- Clark County official Political District Maps (2021 redistricting) and Nevada Secretary of State voter search: clarkcountynv.gov district maps . nvsos.gov/votersearch
How we handled the numbers. Township populations are 2020 U.S. Census place figures, labeled as township-level, never as District-E-only. County totals are county-level. The roughly 324,000-per-seat figure is stated as arithmetic (county population divided by seven), and the roughly 44 percent unincorporated figure is labeled as a derived ratio, not an official statistic.
What we left out, on purpose. There is no reliable District-E-only population, income, or home-value figure, so none is published here. Where a precise district figure does not exist, this guide says so and points to the township, county, and official-map sources that do.
Found something to fix? If a figure here is out of date or a line needs a better source, the campaign wants to know. Accuracy is the whole point of a page like this. Reach the team through the main site.