Heritage District, Sunnyvale, CA Property Crime Rates and Maps
Heritage District is a neighborhood of 11,400 residents in Sunnyvale, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Heritage District?
Heritage District grades C+ for property crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 79% of Americans live. Theft makes up 61% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B+, and vehicle theft grades D+. Sunnyvale as a whole grades B for property crime.
C+
Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 509 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
21% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Heritage District as a whole, and 79% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Heritage District scores 509.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Heritage District, Sunnyvale, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Heritage District in Sunnyvale, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Heritage District
Car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Sunnyvale as a whole, 58% of reported car thefts happen on streets and sidewalks, against 27% nationally.
How Heritage District compares within Sunnyvale
Property crime varies widely across Heritage District: 28% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 32% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across Heritage District run from B- to D-.
28%40%32%
A or B 28%C 40%D or F 32%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Heritage District has less property crime than 2 of the 8 neighborhoods in Sunnyvale. It covers much of the Heritage District and Lowlanders areas.
Is property crime going up in Sunnyvale?
Reported property crime in Sunnyvale as a whole has fallen 17% since 2019. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 22 to 18 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
SunnyvaleUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Sunnyvale. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Sunnyvale
Property, US
2016
-36%
+15%
2017
-21%
+12%
2018
-26%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-8%
-8%
2021
+0%
-10%
2022
+8%
-6%
2023
-13%
-7%
2024
-17%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in Heritage District
CrimeGrade™ estimates Heritage District has about 28 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 18% more than the US as a whole and 22% more than Sunnyvale as a whole.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Heritage District, about 61% of the total, followed by vandalism and vehicle theft.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Sunnyvale
The Sunnyvale Police Department polices Heritage District; these figures cover Sunnyvale as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Sunnyvale as a whole, 37% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (40%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (58%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (57%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (27%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times; they are over one in five for burglary.
Property crime in Heritage District and nearby neighborhoods
Heritage District has more property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Whisman Station and Birdland Neighbors have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Heritage District. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Heritage District is safer than 69% of them.
Shops, density and walkability in Heritage District
Among the traits that tend to go with property crime, one sets Heritage District apart: it has 84% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report more car theft, and it runs high here.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.14.6 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 78% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.84% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 70% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft.B- (49 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 63% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.5.0% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 64% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs Heritage District
Property crime costs Heritage District about $2.3 million a year, or $202 per resident and about $492 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
