What is so bad about Oceanside?

[fredo4]

I think you’re right. Oceanside has a bad image that has lingered fromyears ago when the area was seedier and more crime ridden. People are very conscious of the reputation of a place even if it’s undeserved. No one wants to be the first to move to an area that’s known as a ghetto even if it is no longer the case. I recently checked a crime statistics chart and all of the areas closest to the beach (where we’re thinking of buying) are pretty much equal in terms of crime. In fact, Del Mar is the worst.

[temeculaguy]

Three things to check before buying a house, crime rates can be found at sandag, megans law pinmap and the school’s demographic info (free lunch, etc.) and scores. Even if your kids go to private school, it can be a value killer for SFR’s if the schools are horrible. At some point you may want to sell it and if it the type of housing a family wants, they will care even if you don’t.

I agree with the above posts that O’side is better than it was and it is big enough that is has good areas and bad, it just has more bad than the other N. Coastal Beach areas, but it isn’t a ghetto by L.A. standards and you look at the numbers, it has been making progress for years now. It actually has the lowest crime rate among the cities within the county with over 100k population.

Here is a link to a 36 page pdf report from sandag, go to page 18 and you will see the overall crime rate by town, column three is 2007, Oceanside has a population of 176k, making it the third largest city in the county and it’s crime rate is now 31.1, which is below the county average of 33.4 (crimes per year per thousand people).

Aecitia is correct, Del Mar stats need to be ignored, it has always been a statistical anomoly, with 4k residents to divide the crimes into, the tourists and visitors outnumber the full time residents so it skews the numbers. All coastal areas have tourist but Del Mar is ridiculous as far as the tourist to resident ratio, and what most people consider Del mar is actually the city of S.D., only a very small area of residential is actually in the city of DM, basically the hill overlooking the track.

http://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1367_8040.pdf

Areas with higher crime than oceanside are San Diego City (38.3), Chula Vista (36), Escondido (35.1), El Cajon (45.7), La Mesa (43.9) and National City (42.4). All other areas are lower, but for it’s size it is actually pretty low and has been trending down for 5 years.

But compared to Encinitas (20.6), Carlsbad (27.3), Poway (16.8), Ramona (12.5), Solana Beach (22.1) and even Vista (28.1), it’s higher. In some cases it’s a very small difference but vs Poway, it’s double.

It’s up to you where you want to live, statistically, it’s not that bad.

[temeculaguy]

Three things to check before buying a house, crime rates can be found at sandag, megans law pinmap and the school’s demographic info (free lunch, etc.) and scores. Even if your kids go to private school, it can be a value killer for SFR’s if the schools are horrible. At some point you may want to sell it and if it the type of housing a family wants, they will care even if you don’t.

I agree with the above posts that O’side is better than it was and it is big enough that is has good areas and bad, it just has more bad than the other N. Coastal Beach areas, but it isn’t a ghetto by L.A. standards and you look at the numbers, it has been making progress for years now. It actually has the lowest crime rate among the cities within the county with over 100k population.

Here is a link to a 36 page pdf report from sandag, go to page 18 and you will see the overall crime rate by town, column three is 2007, Oceanside has a population of 176k, making it the third largest city in the county and it’s crime rate is now 31.1, which is below the county average of 33.4 (crimes per year per thousand people).

Aecitia is correct, Del Mar stats need to be ignored, it has always been a statistical anomoly, with 4k residents to divide the crimes into, the tourists and visitors outnumber the full time residents so it skews the numbers. All coastal areas have tourist but Del Mar is ridiculous as far as the tourist to resident ratio, and what most people consider Del mar is actually the city of S.D., only a very small area of residential is actually in the city of DM, basically the hill overlooking the track.

http://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1367_8040.pdf

Areas with higher crime than oceanside are San Diego City (38.3), Chula Vista (36), Escondido (35.1), El Cajon (45.7), La Mesa (43.9) and National City (42.4). All other areas are lower, but for it’s size it is actually pretty low and has been trending down for 5 years.

But compared to Encinitas (20.6), Carlsbad (27.3), Poway (16.8), Ramona (12.5), Solana Beach (22.1) and even Vista (28.1), it’s higher. In some cases it’s a very small difference but vs Poway, it’s double.

It’s up to you where you want to live, statistically, it’s not that bad.

[temeculaguy]

Three things to check before buying a house, crime rates can be found at sandag, megans law pinmap and the school’s demographic info (free lunch, etc.) and scores. Even if your kids go to private school, it can be a value killer for SFR’s if the schools are horrible. At some point you may want to sell it and if it the type of housing a family wants, they will care even if you don’t.

I agree with the above posts that O’side is better than it was and it is big enough that is has good areas and bad, it just has more bad than the other N. Coastal Beach areas, but it isn’t a ghetto by L.A. standards and you look at the numbers, it has been making progress for years now. It actually has the lowest crime rate among the cities within the county with over 100k population.

Here is a link to a 36 page pdf report from sandag, go to page 18 and you will see the overall crime rate by town, column three is 2007, Oceanside has a population of 176k, making it the third largest city in the county and it’s crime rate is now 31.1, which is below the county average of 33.4 (crimes per year per thousand people).

Aecitia is correct, Del Mar stats need to be ignored, it has always been a statistical anomoly, with 4k residents to divide the crimes into, the tourists and visitors outnumber the full time residents so it skews the numbers. All coastal areas have tourist but Del Mar is ridiculous as far as the tourist to resident ratio, and what most people consider Del mar is actually the city of S.D., only a very small area of residential is actually in the city of DM, basically the hill overlooking the track.

http://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1367_8040.pdf

Areas with higher crime than oceanside are San Diego City (38.3), Chula Vista (36), Escondido (35.1), El Cajon (45.7), La Mesa (43.9) and National City (42.4). All other areas are lower, but for it’s size it is actually pretty low and has been trending down for 5 years.

But compared to Encinitas (20.6), Carlsbad (27.3), Poway (16.8), Ramona (12.5), Solana Beach (22.1) and even Vista (28.1), it’s higher. In some cases it’s a very small difference but vs Poway, it’s double.

It’s up to you where you want to live, statistically, it’s not that bad.

[temeculaguy]

Three things to check before buying a house, crime rates can be found at sandag, megans law pinmap and the school’s demographic info (free lunch, etc.) and scores. Even if your kids go to private school, it can be a value killer for SFR’s if the schools are horrible. At some point you may want to sell it and if it the type of housing a family wants, they will care even if you don’t.

I agree with the above posts that O’side is better than it was and it is big enough that is has good areas and bad, it just has more bad than the other N. Coastal Beach areas, but it isn’t a ghetto by L.A. standards and you look at the numbers, it has been making progress for years now. It actually has the lowest crime rate among the cities within the county with over 100k population.

Here is a link to a 36 page pdf report from sandag, go to page 18 and you will see the overall crime rate by town, column three is 2007, Oceanside has a population of 176k, making it the third largest city in the county and it’s crime rate is now 31.1, which is below the county average of 33.4 (crimes per year per thousand people).

Aecitia is correct, Del Mar stats need to be ignored, it has always been a statistical anomoly, with 4k residents to divide the crimes into, the tourists and visitors outnumber the full time residents so it skews the numbers. All coastal areas have tourist but Del Mar is ridiculous as far as the tourist to resident ratio, and what most people consider Del mar is actually the city of S.D., only a very small area of residential is actually in the city of DM, basically the hill overlooking the track.

http://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1367_8040.pdf

Areas with higher crime than oceanside are San Diego City (38.3), Chula Vista (36), Escondido (35.1), El Cajon (45.7), La Mesa (43.9) and National City (42.4). All other areas are lower, but for it’s size it is actually pretty low and has been trending down for 5 years.

But compared to Encinitas (20.6), Carlsbad (27.3), Poway (16.8), Ramona (12.5), Solana Beach (22.1) and even Vista (28.1), it’s higher. In some cases it’s a very small difference but vs Poway, it’s double.

It’s up to you where you want to live, statistically, it’s not that bad.

[temeculaguy]

Three things to check before buying a house, crime rates can be found at sandag, megans law pinmap and the school’s demographic info (free lunch, etc.) and scores. Even if your kids go to private school, it can be a value killer for SFR’s if the schools are horrible. At some point you may want to sell it and if it the type of housing a family wants, they will care even if you don’t.

I agree with the above posts that O’side is better than it was and it is big enough that is has good areas and bad, it just has more bad than the other N. Coastal Beach areas, but it isn’t a ghetto by L.A. standards and you look at the numbers, it has been making progress for years now. It actually has the lowest crime rate among the cities within the county with over 100k population.

Here is a link to a 36 page pdf report from sandag, go to page 18 and you will see the overall crime rate by town, column three is 2007, Oceanside has a population of 176k, making it the third largest city in the county and it’s crime rate is now 31.1, which is below the county average of 33.4 (crimes per year per thousand people).

Aecitia is correct, Del Mar stats need to be ignored, it has always been a statistical anomoly, with 4k residents to divide the crimes into, the tourists and visitors outnumber the full time residents so it skews the numbers. All coastal areas have tourist but Del Mar is ridiculous as far as the tourist to resident ratio, and what most people consider Del mar is actually the city of S.D., only a very small area of residential is actually in the city of DM, basically the hill overlooking the track.

http://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1367_8040.pdf

Areas with higher crime than oceanside are San Diego City (38.3), Chula Vista (36), Escondido (35.1), El Cajon (45.7), La Mesa (43.9) and National City (42.4). All other areas are lower, but for it’s size it is actually pretty low and has been trending down for 5 years.

But compared to Encinitas (20.6), Carlsbad (27.3), Poway (16.8), Ramona (12.5), Solana Beach (22.1) and even Vista (28.1), it’s higher. In some cases it’s a very small difference but vs Poway, it’s double.

It’s up to you where you want to live, statistically, it’s not that bad.

[peterb]

Actually, I’ve always liked O-side near the beach and the train station. Kind of a 50’s feel to the area. Anyone know how the price of SFR’s is holding in this area?

[peterb]

Actually, I’ve always liked O-side near the beach and the train station. Kind of a 50’s feel to the area. Anyone know how the price of SFR’s is holding in this area?

[peterb]

Actually, I’ve always liked O-side near the beach and the train station. Kind of a 50’s feel to the area. Anyone know how the price of SFR’s is holding in this area?

[peterb]

Actually, I’ve always liked O-side near the beach and the train station. Kind of a 50’s feel to the area. Anyone know how the price of SFR’s is holding in this area?

[peterb]

Actually, I’ve always liked O-side near the beach and the train station. Kind of a 50’s feel to the area. Anyone know how the price of SFR’s is holding in this area?

[fredo4]

What we’d really like to find is an area in North County that isn’t so tract-like. I’m getting tired of accidently driving past my own house when I come home. I’ve yet to see anything that is nice and reasonably priced. Any ideas?

[fredo4]

What we’d really like to find is an area in North County that isn’t so tract-like. I’m getting tired of accidently driving past my own house when I come home. I’ve yet to see anything that is nice and reasonably priced. Any ideas?

[fredo4]

What we’d really like to find is an area in North County that isn’t so tract-like. I’m getting tired of accidently driving past my own house when I come home. I’ve yet to see anything that is nice and reasonably priced. Any ideas?

[fredo4]

What we’d really like to find is an area in North County that isn’t so tract-like. I’m getting tired of accidently driving past my own house when I come home. I’ve yet to see anything that is nice and reasonably priced. Any ideas?

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