City Cast is committed to tracking–and publishing–demographic information about our podcast guests. Diversity is a core City Cast value, and accountability is another. We want to have podcast guests who are diverse in race and ethnicity, gender, economic background, and geography. Tracking and publicizing guest demographics is a way to hold us accountable for representing the diversity of Las Vegas.
So are we living up to our values? How diverse is our podcast guest pool, really?
This is the second year of data we have about City Cast Las Vegas guests. (Here’s our report for 2023.) We ask each of our City Cast Las Vegas podcast guests a few questions about their gender identity, racial/ethnic identity, and neighborhood. About 90% of guests responded in 2024. The following data encompass a total of 90 responding guests who appeared on the podcast between Nov. 1, 2023 and Oct. 31, 2024. (We did not count City Cast Las Vegas staffers who appeared on the podcast.)
We then used census data to compare our podcast guests to the broader Las Vegas city and metro population. This helps us see how well we’re reflecting the community we’re serving.
City Cast Las Vegas had about the same percentage of guests who are Black, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander as the community. But we had more white guests and fewer Hispanic/Latinx guests than you’d expect. About 13% of City Cast Las Vegas guests were Hispanic/Latinx, up from 9% in 2023, but still well below the 30% of city and region residents who are Hispanic.
We also asked about gender identity. A 53% majority of our guests identified as male, with 47% identifying as female.
