Las Playas Eviction Risk: Moderate

Pulling the other way is economic stress, at 1/10. 23% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. 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. CDC survey data puts housing insecurity at 5.1% of adults, against 14.2% nationally.

Food insecurity affects 5.0% of adults, 12.8 points below the national rate. On the high side is tenant-organizing strength at 7.6/10.

That places it #7 of 13 neighborhoods in Carlsbad. Only 14% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin here; price renewals off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. The closest comparables inside the same city are Cottage Row Carlsbad and La Costa.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $158,922.

One tract means one number: 5.8/10 applies directly to any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.