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Sunbury is a city in Delaware County, Ohio, part of the Columbus metropolitan area, known by the nickname Memorial Town.

The town was laid out on November 9, 1816, by brothers William and Lawrence Myers, who had come to Ohio from the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, along an old Native American trail, the Walhonding Trail, that is now State Route 3.

Sunbury was platted around a classic town square, and local historians note the square is protected by a condition from the original plat: if the square were ever divided up for development, the land would revert to the Myers brothers' heirs.

In its early years Sunbury was a stop on the stagecoach route between Mount Vernon and Worthington, with an inn serving travelers on the square.

Residents raised 6,500 dollars by public subscription in 1868 to build the Sunbury Institute, a three-story brick building on the square that served as a school, then held the township hall and village offices, and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sunbury officially became a city on October 22, 2021, after the 2020 census confirmed its population had passed 5,000.

Sunbury is one of Ohio's fastest-growing communities: its population rose from 2,630 in 2000 to 4,389 in 2010, 6,614 in 2020, and an estimated 8,857 by 2025, roughly a third more people in just five years.

At the 2010 census, Sunbury's 4,389 residents lived in 1,671 households.

Sunbury is the home and headquarters of the Big Walnut Local School District, whose Golden Eagles serve about 4,100 students from Sunbury and neighboring Galena.

One of Sunbury's historic industries was a creamery that eventually became a Nestle coffee factory.