O.K. Svelte, you did your homework and your data is good. I wasn’t breaking the property vs violent crime, just total crime and using that number, Ramona usually wins and since it is on the 78 and North of Poway, I always consider it as North County. I like that you included the total crimes, don’t sweat Del Mar, look at the totals (274 prop crimes 26 violent, total of 300), then look at O’side (4,873 and 936), there’s no way you believe that any other town has the tourism percentages that Del Mar has. I looked up their total census population (4,400). The attendance at the racetrack or the fair can more than double the town’s population at any given moment, the beachgoers double it and then some, O’side or the other towns do not have 200,000 tourists at one time but Del Mar can have 8,000, usually more, the fair alone draws 1.2 million over it’s run and the fairgrounds hosts some kind of event 315 days a year with more parking spaces than town residents. The truth is in the real numbers (crimes per sq mile isn’t used very often, the best guage is by population). SO looking at the real numbers, there will be almost 20 violent crimes and 90 property crimes in O’side this week, while Del Mar will have a 50% chance of having 1 or 0 violent crimes and 5 property crimes, I think you will be safer by visiting the beach in Del Mar vs O’side. There is no perfect measure, looking at the totality of things is what matters and for real estate, perception also plays a role. When someone asks about Carlsbad vs O’side or Poway/4-s vs. Esco, the perception and the numbers support what the posters here are saying and thank you for bringing the data, I hate discussing things when people only use their personal experiences or things they’ve seen in the paper, I love the data.