Lowlanders is a neighborhood of 3,590 residents in Sunnyvale, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Lowlanders in Sunnyvale safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B, Lowlanders has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 72% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A- against C. Sunnyvale as a whole grades A-.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 671 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
28% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Lowlanders as a whole, and 72% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Lowlanders scores 671.
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 Lowlanders, Sunnyvale, CA at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Lowlanders 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 Lowlanders
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.
Crime rates and types in Lowlanders
CrimeGrade™ estimates Lowlanders has about 32 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 13% less than the US as a whole and close to 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.
Theft is the most common crime in Lowlanders, about 40% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
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 Lowlanders; 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 Lowlanders compares with nearby neighborhoods
Lowlanders has the most crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Two things set Lowlanders apart: it has 2.6% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally, and 16 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less burglary, vandalism and arson, yet burglary and vandalism run higher here than that would suggest.
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.2.6% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 91% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.16 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower 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.C+ (41 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 57% 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.91% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 76% 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 Lowlanders
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Lowlanders about $765 a year per household, 37% 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 $3.1 million a year, or $868 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 Lowlanders 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 Lowlanders, Sunnyvale, CA average a SchoolGrade of B+: 43% of students test proficient, against 51% projected for schools like them. Overall, they underperform expectations. See schools in Lowlanders on SchoolGrade
