Santa Barbara Eviction Risk: Elevated

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.2/10. 22% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.8/10. Against Santa Barbara County at 51.2%, 44% of renters here are cost-burdened. Food insecurity runs 8.4% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. That is riskier than roughly 81% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.1 points cooler. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the Santa Barbara County average of 7.0 closely. Average gross rent is $2,528, close to the Santa Barbara average.

Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $155,842.

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