Carpinteria Eviction Risk: Moderate

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 8.8/10. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.2/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.3/10.

It sits 1.5 points below the Santa Barbara County average of 7.0. At $2,688 a month, rents run 13% over what the rest of Carpinteria commands. Nationally it ranks #23,808 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 5.8/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.0 points cooler. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

53% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $140,341.

31% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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.