The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Sunrise, FL
Sunrise is a city of 101,000 in Broward County · Updated November 2026
Is Sunrise, FL safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A means crime in Sunrise is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Sunrise sits near the middle: 53% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 47% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades A and property crime A-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Sunrise run from A+ to C+, so check the map or the safest and least safe neighborhoods below.
A
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 851 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
53% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Sunrise as a whole, and 47% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Sunrise scores 851.
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 Sunrise, FL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Sunrise, 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 Sunrise
Car thefts run high in Sunrise Golf Village East. In this part of southeast Sunrise, they run at more than double the rate in the rest of Sunrise.
Burglaries and aggravated assaults both run low. In Sunrise, each runs at less than half the US rate: 0.90 burglaries and 0.96 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 and 2.6 nationally.
The safest and most dangerous neighborhoods in Sunrise
Low crime is the norm across Sunrise: 90% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Sunrise run from A+ to C+; 47% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
90%10%
A or B 90%C 10%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
1New River Estates & Savannah, southwestAggravated assaults run at less than half the rate in the rest of Sunrise.A+933
2Welleby, northClose to the rest of Sunrise on most crimes.A-838
3Sunrise Golf Village East, southeastAggravated assaults run at more than double the rate in the rest of Sunrise.B684
Neighborhood areas of Sunrise, ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Crime rates and types in Sunrise
CrimeGrade™ estimates Sunrise has about 27 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 27% less than the US as a whole and close to Florida.
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 makes up about 52% of crime reported in Sunrise. Assault is less common but 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.
The Sunrise Police Department sent the FBI no usable 2024 counts of reported rape, robbery, aggravated assault, simple assault, burglary, theft and vehicle theft, so CrimeGrade™ built the figures from the department's own reports for recent years, brought up to 2024. The department reports to the FBI in a format that leaves out vandalism, so CrimeGrade™ makes its own vandalism estimate.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
How Sunrise compares with nearby cities
Sunrise has less crime than 8 of its 10 nearest cities; only Weston and Cooper City have less.
Two things set Sunrise apart: it has 17.9 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 85 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more theft and robbery than places with only one of them; here theft and robbery sit near the national middle.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.17.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 95% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.85 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 93% of US city residents
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. 75% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (21 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 62% of US city residents
Show all 6
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.56% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 86% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Sunrise: C- (27 of 100).7 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 76% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Sunrise on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Sunrise
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Sunrise about $724 a year per household, 40% less than the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $28 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $82 million a year, or $808 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$5.8 million
$57
Rape
$1.1 million
$11
Robbery
$1.2 million
$12
Assault
$7.6 million
$76
Burglary
$820,000
$8
Theft
$7.3 million
$73
Vehicle theft
$2.1 million
$20
Arson
$46,000
under $1
Vandalism
$1.9 million
$18
Total
$28 million
$276
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 Sunrise 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 Sunrise, FL average a SchoolGrade of B+: 61% of students test proficient, against 39% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Sunrise on SchoolGrade
