Westside Eviction Risk: High , Santa Barbara

The dominant input is tenant-organizing strength at 9.6/10. 86% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. It sits 2.2 points above the Santa Barbara County average of 7.0.

Annualized rent equals 39% of average household income of $70,192, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. 63% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well above the Santa Barbara County average of 51.2%. The poverty rate is 31%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.8/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, economic stress reads 7.9/10. SNAP participation runs 25.1% against 15.2% nationally.

Nationally it ranks #3,529 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.7 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $2,291, close to the Santa Barbara average.

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.