Crime in Sun City, Arizona
Major crime in Sun City is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 24% lower for persons crimes and 48% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Every crime type in Sun City is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sun City for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Sun City
The middle half of Sun City residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 77; the typical (median) resident's is 45. The citywide figure (56) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5058.1%
- 50–10030.9%
- 100–20011.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.5% in a year; across Arizona it fell 3.2%
Change in expected crimes, with Arizona as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Sun City against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
655 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sun City; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sun City has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, El Mirage (3 mi), is 46% above Sun City's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sun City
What are the most common crimes in Sun City?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 108 a year), aggravated assault (about 77 a year) and other larceny (about 49 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: about the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Sun City's figures add up its 40 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sun City has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 39,207. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sun City, Arizona." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/az/sun-city
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- El Mirage3 mi82
- Youngtown3 mi75
- Peoria3 mi79
- Sun City West6 mi41
- Glendale6 mi143
- Surprise7 mi51
- Litchfield Park9 mi55
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