CrimeMetric

Crime in Sunnyside, Washington

Major crime in Sunnyside is 26% above the U.S. rate per resident: 45% lower for persons crimes and 41% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
126
26% above the U.S. rate
about the Washington rate
down 8.2% in a year
Persons crimes
55
45% below the U.S. rate
37% below the Washington rate
down 5.6% in a year
Property crimes
141
41% above the U.S. rate
9% above the Washington rate
down 8.4% in a year
Social disorder
103
about the U.S. rate
29% above the Washington rate
down 6.5% in a year

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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Crime by type

Vandalism stands out most, at 2.3 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Sunnyside for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Sunnyside

The middle half of Sunnyside residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 39 and 196; the typical (median) resident's is 60. The citywide figure (126) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Sunnyside, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5040.4%
  • 50–10017.4%
  • 100–20031.7%
  • 200–4005.7%
  • 400+4.9%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest in the daytime

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm156
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am91
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm157
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am84
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.2% in a year; across Washington it fell 10.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.2%WA -10.1%-15.4%WA -12.2%
Persons crimes-5.6%WA -5.9%-4.6%WA -1.8%
Property crimes-8.4%WA -10.6%-16.4%WA -13.7%
Social disorder-6.5%WA -9.4%-10.1%WA -6.5%

Change in expected crimes, with Washington as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Sunnyside against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

423 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sunnyside; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Sunnyside has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Grandview (7 mi), is 26% below Sunnyside's rate.

Union Gap28 mi411
Toppenish15 mi180
Sunnyside126
Wapato21 mi114
Grandview7 mi93
Mattawa29 mi82
Prosser14 mi60
Zillah14 mi58

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Sunnyside

What are the most common crimes in Sunnyside?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 191 a year), shoplifting (about 80 a year) and burglary (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 2.3 times 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. Sunnyside's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Sunnyside's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
  • 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: 17,965. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sunnyside, Washington." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wa/sunnyside

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100