Santa Maria Eviction Risk: High

The score leans hardest on economic stress at 9.9/10. Adults with no health insurance runs 38.4% against 11.3% nationally. Food insecurity runs 58.5% against 17.8% nationally.

100% 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. Set annual rent against average income of $48,810 and the ratio lands at 45%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The poverty rate is 40%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.

Against Santa Barbara County at 51.2%, 63% of renters here are cost-burdened. Running cool, supply constraint reads 1.1/10.

It sits 1.9 points above the Santa Barbara County average of 7.0. That is riskier than roughly 95% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 10/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,833, close to the Santa Maria average.

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