Photo: DJ Cane · CC BY-SA 4.0Sunnyside sees more crime per resident than three in four Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 75.5 and other offences for 101.5, against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2. The Safety Grade comes out at C−, drawn from crime the police covering Sunnyside reported through 2023 to 2025: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. Even so, the index fell from 104.1 in 2023 to 89.1 in 2025. Police counts work out at 9.7 violent incidents and 31.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ they are 10.8 and 25.1.
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Measured across the Surrey service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What stands out about safety in Sunnyside
Less crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 15% of crime in Sunnyside ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 36% of violent crime and 8% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 38%. Questions ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 75.5 on Sunnyside’s index against 75.2 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+; non-violent crime, 101.5 against 54.2. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Sunnyside’s C−
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Sunnyside itself compares.
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
Its place: #136 of 251 in British Columbia and #1,836 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What Surrey’s police record, by type
These are Surrey’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Surrey runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (2.5 per 1,000 against 0.04), drug offences (4 per 1,000 against 0.9) and robbery (0.5 per 1,000 against 0.4). Sexual assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 8.7 | 0.02 | 61% |
| Sexual violations against children | 175.7 | 0.3 | 23% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 85.3 | 0.1 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 21 | 0.04 | 32% |
| Robbery | 304.7 | 0.5 | 29% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 23 | 0.04 | 75% |
| Other violent violations | 55.3 | 0.1 | 29% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,019.7 | 2 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 117 | 0.2 | 49% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 871.7 | 1.6 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 289 | 0.6 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 8,757 | 16.6 | 9% |
| Mischief | 2,447 | 4.5 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 275 | 0.5 | 43% |
| Administration of justice violations | 888.7 | 1.6 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 306.7 | 0.6 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 1,855.7 | 4 | 11% |
| Impaired driving | 848.3 | 1.6 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 384.3 | 0.7 | 13% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Sunnyside, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 104.1, and 2024 the lightest at 87.5. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Surrey Police Service took over from the RCMP on 29 November 2024. The figures here are the RCMP Surrey detachment’s for 2023–2025, the only full three years; the new service reports 2025 alone.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sunnyside | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89.1 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 87.5 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 104.1 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Sunnyside, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Sunnyside
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyside | 16,784 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Semiahmoo Town Centre | 13,381 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| South Surrey | 6,431 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Grandview | 16,947 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Morgan Creek | 8,084 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Anderson Walk | 4,210 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| White Rock | 25,057 | 82.6 | 87.2 | C |
5 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- How serious, not how safe. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the city. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Sunnyside is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- Reading the number. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Sunnyside
Is Sunnyside safe?
With 9.7 violent incidents and 31 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Sunnyside comes to 93.6 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more have a median of 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Sunnyside?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 16.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (15.4) and fraud (5.3).
Is crime going up in Sunnyside?
Down 14%: 104.1 in 2023, 89.1 in 2025.
How much of Sunnyside’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 15% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 36% of violent crime and 8% of the rest, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the city.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).