55%built before 1980
How likely is lead paint where you live in Ventura County
Ventura County's median household income, $109,797, is one of the highest of any county we've pulled data for. That average hides a lot. Places like Santa Paula, Fillmore, and the older parts of Oxnard carry housing stock decades older than the county average, and older paint means higher odds of lead. Type your address below and get your own tract's numbers, not the county average.
55.4%of homes here were built before 1980
6.0%were built before 1950, the highest-risk years
1978county's median year built
Look up your address
Type a street address in Ventura County and see the lead-paint likelihood for that specific census tract, based on how old the housing is around it.
What you can do about it
Test before you renovate
If a home was built before 1978 and you're about to sand, scrape, or demo anything painted, test first. That's when old paint actually turns into dust in the air, and that's the exposure that matters.
A test kit exists for this
Fluoro-Spec test kits spray a surface and glow bright green under UV light if lead is there. No lab, no mailing anything off, an answer in seconds. More at detectlead.com.
Ventura County Public Health runs Healthy Homes Ventura County, the county's lead hazard program; call 805-981-5228 or email HealthyHomesVC@ventura.org if you want to talk to them directly.
This same address-to-risk lookup runs live for Columbus, Ohio at detectlead.com/columbus. Ventura County is the same idea, built on this county's own housing-age data.
Questions about this page
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This page is an independent public-information tool built by DetectLead, not an official publication of Ventura County and not a county program. Housing-age data is from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2020-2024 5-year estimates (table B25034), at the census-tract level. Lead-paint likelihood here is estimated from neighborhood housing age only, it isn't a reading of any specific home. Fluoro-Spec test kits are a field screen, not a substitute for an EPA-certified lead inspection where one is legally required.