Crime in Sun City West, Arizona
Major crime in Sun City West is 59% below the U.S. rate per resident: 58% lower for persons crimes and 59% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% 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 West is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sun City West 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 West
The middle half of Sun City West residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 14 and 26; the typical (median) resident's is 19. The citywide figure (41) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5085.6%
- 50–1003.4%
- 100–2003.9%
- 200–4007.0%
- 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 7.3% 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 West against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
808 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sun City West; 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 West has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Surprise (4 mi), is 24% above Sun City West's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sun City West
What are the most common crimes in Sun City West?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 84 a year), aggravated assault (about 29 a year) and other larceny (about 24 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting 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 West's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sun City West 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: 26,993. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sun City West, Arizona." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/az/sun-city-west
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Surprise4 mi51
- El Mirage5 mi82
- Sun City6 mi56
- Peoria6 mi79
- Youngtown7 mi75
- Citrus Park11 mi23
- Glendale11 mi143
- Litchfield Park12 mi55