Heritage District is a neighborhood of 11,400 residents in Sunnyvale, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Heritage District in Sunnyvale safe?
Crime in Heritage District is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 66% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Heritage District. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A against C+. Sunnyvale as a whole grades A-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Heritage District run from A- to B-, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 736 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
34% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Heritage District as a whole, and 66% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Heritage District scores 736.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 in Heritage District
One weak spot: robbery. It grades B in Heritage District, worse than in the neighborhoods where 76% of Americans live, against A for violent crime as a whole.
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
Every part of Heritage District where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Heritage District run from A- to B-; every part of Heritage District has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
100%
A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Heritage District has less crime than 2 of the 8 neighborhoods in Sunnyvale. It covers much of the Heritage District and Lowlanders areas.
Is crime going up in Sunnyvale?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Sunnyvale as a whole is up 39% and property crime is down 17%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 1.7 to 2.4 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 22 to 18 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
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
Violent, Sunnyvale
Violent, US
Property, Sunnyvale
Property, US
2016
-38%
+4%
-36%
+15%
2017
-29%
+4%
-21%
+12%
2018
-2%
+0%
-26%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-13%
+4%
-8%
-8%
2021
+23%
+6%
+0%
-10%
2022
+28%
+5%
+8%
-6%
2023
+48%
+2%
-13%
-7%
2024
+39%
-4%
-17%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Heritage District
CrimeGrade™ estimates Heritage District has about 34 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 8% less than the US as a whole and 21% more than Sunnyvale as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
The largest share of crime reported in Heritage District is theft, about 50% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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 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. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 57% of them, against 31% 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)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (40%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (40%)
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.
How Heritage District compares with nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Heritage District, 8 have less crime. Birdland Neighbors and Whisman Station have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Heritage District. Beside each overall 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 83% of them.
Nightlife, shops and walkability in Heritage District
Two things set Heritage District apart: it has 1.1 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and 84% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places with both tend to report more assault and robbery than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 82% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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
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 and assault.B- (49 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 63% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.84% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 70% 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 crime costs Heritage District
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Heritage District about $820 a year per household, 32% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $8.7 million a year, or $763 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Heritage District means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
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.
Schools in Heritage District, Sunnyvale, CA average a SchoolGrade of A-: 49% of students test proficient, against 55% projected for schools like them. Overall, they underperform expectations. See schools in Heritage District on SchoolGrade
