Santa Maria Eviction Risk: High

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9/10. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

On the softer side, supply constraint reads 1.4/10. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.8/10.

It sits 1.2 points above the Santa Barbara County average of 7.0. SNAP participation runs 25.8% against 15.2% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 21.5% against 11.3% nationally.

That is riskier than roughly 92% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 24% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $1,933, close to the Santa Maria 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.