La Costa Valley Eviction Risk: Moderate

The severe-burden share is 37%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. The main counterweight is economic stress, at 1/10. Average gross rent is $3,501, 25% above the Carlsbad average of $2,808.

Sitting well above the midpoint is rent-regulation exposure at 8.1/10. The voucher gap is 21.5%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears.

On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 7.6/10. 2.6% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, below a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. SNAP participation is 4.9% of households versus 15.2% nationally.

Among the 13 mapped neighborhoods of Carlsbad, it ranks #7 by risk, the middle third. The closest comparables inside the same city are Cottage Row Carlsbad and La Costa. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $171,310. 33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 5.8/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.