Santa Maria Eviction Risk: Elevated

Running cool, economic stress reads 1/10. On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1/10.

60% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, higher than the Santa Barbara County average of 51.2%. On the national scale it lands near the 84th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 3%, 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 $1,831, close to the Santa Maria average. Annual rent works out to 26% of average household income of $83,011.

42% 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.