Las Positas Eviction Risk: Moderate , Eastern Goleta Valley

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.2/10. Against the Santa Barbara County average of 7.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 2.0 points. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.8/10.

Average gross rent is $3,501, 18% above the Eastern Goleta Valley average. The voucher gap is 15.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.8% against 11.3% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 6.9/10. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

Nationally it ranks #32,842 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 5/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.5 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing 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.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.