Santa Maria Eviction Risk: Elevated

Food insecurity runs 35.1% against 17.8% nationally. On the softer side, economic stress reads 1.5/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 27.0% against 11.3% nationally.

At $2,409 a month, rents run 25% over what the rest of Santa Maria commands. Against Santa Barbara County at 51.2%, 43% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.8/10. Severe burden reaches 11%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. On the national scale it lands near the 82nd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 0.9 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Poverty sits at 6%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.