Sunnyside is a neighborhood of 16,700 residents in Tucson, about 5 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Sunnyside in Tucson safe?
Crime in Sunnyside is high, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of D+. Most US neighborhoods have far less: 89% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Sunnyside. Violent and property crime both grade D+ here. Tucson as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Sunnyside run from B- to F, so check the map below.
D+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 244 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
11% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Sunnyside as a whole, and 89% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Sunnyside scores 244.
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 Sunnyside, Tucson, AZ at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Sunnyside in Tucson, 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 Sunnyside
Car thefts run high. Sunnyside has car thefts at more than double the US rate: 6.8 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Sunnyside compares within Tucson
High crime is widespread across Sunnyside: 76% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 11% in areas graded A or B. Grades across Sunnyside run from B- to F; every part of Sunnyside has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
11%13%76%
A or B 11%C 13%D or F 76%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Sunnyside has less crime than 9 of the 44 neighborhoods in Tucson. It covers much of the Sunnyside, Midvale Park, and Wakefield areas.
Is crime going up in Tucson?
Reported property crime in Tucson as a whole peaked in 2022 and has fallen 21% since, back near its 2019 level. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 33 to 34 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). Property crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Property crime, change since 2019
TucsonUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Tucson. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Tucson
Property, US
2016
+77%
+15%
2017
+58%
+12%
2018
+49%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+12%
-8%
2021
+25%
-10%
2022
+28%
-6%
2023
+11%
-7%
2024
+2%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Sunnyside
CrimeGrade™ estimates Sunnyside has about 64 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 72% more than the US as a whole and close to Tucson 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 Sunnyside is assault, about 33% 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.
How Sunnyside compares with nearby neighborhoods
Sunnyside has more crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Westside Development and Midvale Park have the least crime nearby.
Two things set Sunnyside apart: it has tree cover over 1% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 9 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places with little tree cover tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.1% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 98% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.9 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 91% 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. 61% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (30 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 56% 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.22% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 78% 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 Sunnyside
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Sunnyside about $2,591 a year per household, about double 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 $47 million a year, or $2,800 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 Sunnyside 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
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 Sunnyside, Tucson, AZ average a SchoolGrade of F: 13% of students test proficient, against 19% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Sunnyside on SchoolGrade
