Carpinteria Eviction Risk: Elevated

28% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. The clearest offset is economic stress at 1/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.8/10.

Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $86,345, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10.

It sits 0.7 points below the Santa Barbara County average of 7.0. Nationally it ranks #16,571 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.2 points cooler. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent is $2,477, close to the Carpinteria average.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.