Sunnyside, WA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 21% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sunnyside, WA shows violent crime at 277.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,589.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 21% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
277.4/100K violent
2589.4/100K property
-21% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Sunnyside, WA
Comparable rate records
Sunnyside's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Washington cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sunnyside's 277.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Yelm (277.3), Walla Walla (284.3), Centralia (269.6), Napavine (269.3). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Sunnyside sits mid-pack among comparable Washington cities
At 277.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sunnyside ranks 46 of 164 — above 118 of the 163 other Washington cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +50.9% against the cohort median of 183.9. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 278.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 277.4 in 2024 (-0.3%). The highest observed value was 484.7 in 2022 and the lowest 258.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Sunnyside's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Sunnyside's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 7.6 Census sq mi, Sunnyside logged 55.6 property and 6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sunnyside's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 465 offenses; mix index 5,042).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-2.8%
2664.3 → 2589.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-2%
283 → 277.4/100K
Property offenses lead Sunnyside's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
420
2589.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
321
1979
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
55
339.1
-
Burglary
44
271.3
-
Arson
4
24.7
-
Violent Crime
45
277.4
352
Aggravated Assault
30
185
-
Robbery
9
55.5
-
Rape
4
24.7
-
Murder
2
12.3
-
Sunnyside Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Sunnyside property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Sunnyside Police Department
Reporting agency for Sunnyside NIBRS-participating
Sunnyside Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sunnyside's 465 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Washington
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Washington cities closest to Sunnyside in population. Their populations run from 14,097 to 18,472, against 16,220 here. Or use our
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Sunnyside at 277.4/100K violent and 2,589.4/100K property - matched below outside Washington (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Sunnyside reported 45 violent crimes and 420 property crimes, for a total of 465 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Sunnyside?
From 2023 to 2024, Sunnyside's violent crime rate decreased by 2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.8%.
What is the most common crime in Sunnyside?
The most common crime type in Sunnyside is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.0% of all reported crimes (321 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Sunnyside figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sunnyside, WA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.