Originally Posted by cooker

I'm sure they have a low crime rate in Cayucos as it is an affluent area and crime is linked in part to poverty. However it is also the case that it is hard to measure the crime rate per 100/k people in a town of 2500, as you have to multiple the actual occurrences by 40 to estimate the annual rate. A slight year-to-year variation eg. one extra violent crime, or one murder, would lead to huge fluctuations in the estimated annual rate.

For example the Cayucos murder rate was 40/100k in 2008: Dorothy Autrey: Killed in Cayucos in 2008 | The Tribune

Anyway, you still have provided no insights about living car-free or car-light there, and it's pretty obvious you aren't going to.