Santa Maria Eviction Risk: High

Food insecurity runs 57.8% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 58.0% against 15.2% nationally. Set annual rent against average income of $44,682 and the ratio lands at 46%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

This is renter territory: 94% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.3/10.

The poverty rate is 37%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

It sits 1.9 points above the Santa Barbara County average of 7.0. Against Santa Barbara County at 51.2%, 56% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Average gross rent is $1,698, 12% below the Santa Maria average. Nationally it ranks #4,393 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 9.8/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

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.