Sunrise is a neighborhood of 19,800 residents in Las Vegas, about 4 miles east of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Sunrise in Las Vegas safe?
Sunrise is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of D-, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 92% of Americans live. Violent crime grades D+ and property crime F. Las Vegas as a whole grades B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Sunrise run from D+ to F, so check the map below.
D-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 124 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
8% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Sunrise as a whole, and 92% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Sunrise scores 124.
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, Las Vegas, NV at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Sunrise in Las Vegas, 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
Vehicle theft at more than triple the US rate. Sunrise has 9.9 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
How Sunrise compares within Las Vegas
Every part of Sunrise grades D or F on the national scale. Grades across Sunrise run from D+ to F; every part of Sunrise has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Sunrise has less crime than 5 of the 33 neighborhoods in Las Vegas. It covers much of the East Las Vegas, Sunrise, and West Las Vegas areas.
Is crime going up in Las Vegas?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Las Vegas as a whole is down 20%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.8 to 4.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 26 to 24 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 14%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Las Vegas. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Las Vegas
Violent, US
Property, Las Vegas
Property, US
2016
+56%
+4%
+4%
+15%
2017
+16%
+4%
+7%
+12%
2018
+14%
+0%
+3%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+4%
+4%
-16%
-8%
2021
-9%
+6%
-7%
-10%
2022
-3%
+5%
+5%
-6%
2023
-13%
+2%
+10%
-7%
2024
-20%
-4%
-6%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Sunrise
CrimeGrade™ estimates Sunrise has about 79 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 24% more than Las Vegas 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 Sunrise is assault, about 35% 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 Las Vegas
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department polices Sunrise, and these figures cover every place it serves, 2022 to 2024.
In Sunrise, 50% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 36% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (50%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (47%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (36%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Homes (43%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (43%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (54%)
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.
How Sunrise compares with nearby neighborhoods
Sunrise has less crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Tree cover, empty homes and walkability in Sunrise
Two things set Sunrise apart: it has tree cover over 0% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 12.5% of its homes standing empty, against 7.1% nationally. Places like that 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.under 1% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 99% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.12.5% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 88% 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. 63% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (28 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 59% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.17 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 74% 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 Sunrise
Crime costs Sunrise about $3,097 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, more than 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 $59 million a year, or $3,008 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 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
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department publishes its own crime data
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, Las Vegas, NV average a SchoolGrade of D-: 21% of students test proficient, against 17% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Sunrise on SchoolGrade
