Cost of living in Santa Barbara County
Simple answer
A 2-bedroom fair-market rent is $3,106 a month.
That HUD number covers Santa Barbara County, California, from October 2026 through September 2027. Towns in the county can still have different rents on the ground.
- Studio
- $2,479
- 1 bed
- $2,711
- 2 bed
- $3,106
- 3 bed
- $3,990
- 4 bed
- $4,557
This county is in the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA area. BEA's 2024 price index there is 108.8 (U.S. = 100).
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Towns in this county
- Santa Maria · 110,462 people
- Santa Barbara · 87,779 people
- Lompoc · 43,646 people
- Goleta · 32,685 people
- Orcutt · 31,454 people
- Eastern Goleta Valley · 28,295 people
- Isla Vista · 13,920 people
- University of California-Santa Barbara · 12,121 people
- Montecito · 9,031 people
- Guadalupe · 8,566 people
- Vandenberg Village · 6,776 people
- Solvang · 6,034 people
- Buellton · 5,074 people
- Santa Ynez · 4,467 people
- Mission Hills · 3,859 people
- Vandenberg AFB · 3,477 people
- Mission Canyon · 2,357 people
- Toro Canyon · 1,477 people
- Summerland · 1,348 people
- Los Alamos · 1,163 people