Santa Maria Eviction Risk: Lower

Adults with no health insurance runs 43.9% against 11.3% nationally. Pulling hardest the other way is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the softer side, tenant-organizing strength reads 1/10.

Running cool, housing-court posture reads 1.4/10. The poverty rate is 28%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 12 filings here across 3 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2016 at 3.9% of renter households.

In a typical year about 2.7% of renter households face a filing. That is riskier than roughly 35% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Only 12% 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 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Rent consumes only 15% of average household income of $55,846, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Cameron County average of 3.9 closely.

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