Healthcare & Safety in Surprise
Surprise has solid healthcare access via Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center and HonorHealth's combined ER/urgent-care facility, and crime data reads favorably from both major trackers reviewed -- though they frame Surprise's safety differently.
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Learn moreSolid, if technically adjacent, hospital access
Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center is a 404-licensed-bed nonprofit acute-care hospital that opened in 1988 -- the 8th-largest hospital in the Valley, specializing in cardiac services, women's health/maternity, robotic surgery, and orthopedics, and nationally recognized for stroke care (bannerhealth.com, retrieved 2026-08-24). It is technically located in adjacent Sun City West rather than inside Surprise city limits, but has served the northwest-valley area including Surprise for more than 20 years -- disclosed here rather than misrepresented as an in-city facility. HonorHealth Complete Care - Surprise, described as a full-service ER and urgent care combined under one roof, is cited as the first facility of its kind in Arizona, alongside separate HonorHealth cancer-care and orthopedic specialty locations in Surprise itself.
Crime data: favorable from both major trackers, though framed differently
NeighborhoodScout cites an overall crime rate of 10 per 1,000 residents -- 'near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America,' with violent crime at 1 per 1,000 (about average) and property crime at 9 per 1,000, and states Surprise is safer than both the Arizona and national averages. CrimeGrade instead cites a higher raw overall rate of 15.71 per 1,000 but assigns an A overall grade -- its top rating -- describing Surprise as one of the safest mid-sized cities in Arizona, with every single one of 12 analyzed neighborhoods grading A or higher (both retrieved 2026-08-24). Both sources' bottom-line characterization agrees (safer than typical) even though the raw per-1,000 figures differ by methodology -- disclosed rather than reconciled to one number.
Key takeaways
- Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center (404 beds, opened 1988, 8th-largest in the Valley) serves the Surprise area from adjacent Sun City West; HonorHealth Complete Care - Surprise is a combined ER/urgent-care facility cited as the first of its kind in Arizona.
- NeighborhoodScout cites a crime rate near the national average (10/1,000); CrimeGrade cites a higher raw rate (15.71/1,000) but assigns an A overall grade with every studied neighborhood grading A or higher -- both sources agree Surprise reads as safer than typical, even though their methodologies diverge.
- Confirm current, address-specific crime and hospital-network data directly before relocating, given the real methodology differences between sources.
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