El Rio MHP: mobile home park in Santa Cruz, California
Unofficial page — independent directory built from the California state registry, updated August 2026.
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A 91-space mobile home park in Santa Cruz, CA. It sits in FEMA flood zone A99, a special flood hazard area — worth factoring into insurance and financing. Everyday shopping is within a couple of miles.
The surrounding town is well wired: about 100% of homes can reach 100/20 Mbps, much of it fiber. At 91 spaces, this mobilehome park is a fair-sized operation to run water and rent billing across.
- Size
- 91 spaces · 26th largest of 75 in Santa Cruz County (median 63)
- Size vs the state
- Larger than about 66% of California's registered parks
- Rent increases
- 75% CPI, 8% Cap (Santa Cruz ordinance) · read it
- Rent nearby
- 2-bedroom fair market rent $4,214/mo (HUD FY 2026)
- Flood zone
- A99 — special flood hazard area; flood insurance generally required
- Wildfire risk
- Higher than 79% of U.S. counties (USFS, county-wide)
- Tornadoes
- 8 recorded in Santa Cruz County since 1950, strongest F1 (NOAA)
- Water
- Own public system (well) · EPA CA4500246
- Nearest
- Grocery 0.3 mi · pharmacy 0.3 mi · clinic 0.2 mi
- School & ER
- Mission Hill Middle 0.6 mi · Dominican Hospital (ER) 2.5 mi
- Internet
- 100% of homes at 100/20 Mbps · fiber 50% · gigabit 54%
- Neighborhood
- Median rent $2,356/mo · median income $105,000 · 2% mobile homes
Distances are straight-line, so the drive is longer. Internet and neighborhood figures describe the surrounding town — and the rent benchmark, wildfire rank, and tornado count the wider county — not this park’s own lots. The fair market rent is apartment-style rent (HUD’s area benchmark), not this park’s lot rent. Rent limits are not legal advice.
Looking for the office number? Their Google Maps listing may have it →
Worth knowing
This park runs its own regulated public water system (EPA id CA4500246), drawing from its own groundwater well. The system reports serving about 434 residents through 155 service connections.
Santa Cruz is a mid-size California city, home to about 63,000 people. 61 other registered parks lie within about 10 miles.
For residents
- Water billing: if your park submeters water, California bills it at the utility's rate with combined service and admin fees capped (AB 604) — no markup on the water itself. Check the math free with the water submeter calculator, or read the California water-billing guide.
- Paying rent: ask the park office how they take payment. Parks that run on Lot Sidekick hand residents clear, itemized rent and water bills.
- Thinking about moving here? What to ask a park before you rent a lot, and what lot rent covers and how it goes up.
Common questions
How many spaces does El Rio MHP have?
El Rio MHP has 91 total spaces per the California park registry (as of August 24, 2026).
Is this El Rio MHP's official website or phone number?
No. This is El Rio MHP's page in the Lot Sidekick park directory, built from the state registry. We're independent of the park and can't take messages for it. The park office hasn't added a public contact here yet; if you own the park, claiming the page (free) lets you add one.
Where is El Rio MHP?
2120 N Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, California 95060, in Santa Cruz County.
How much is lot rent at El Rio MHP?
El Rio MHP doesn't publish its lot rent anywhere we could find, and we won't guess at a figure. Call the park office to ask. For scale: HUD's FY 2026 fair market rent for a 2-bedroom rental around Santa Cruz County is $4,214/mo — that's apartment-style rent for the area, and lot rent (the ground under a home you own) usually runs well below it. If you run this park, you can add your real lot rent to this page for free.
How much can lot rent go up at El Rio MHP?
California has no statewide cap on space-rent increases, but the Mobilehome Residency Law requires 90 days' written notice (Civil Code §798.30), and many California cities add local rent-stabilization ordinances — check your city before assuming there's no cap. On top of that, Santa Cruz has its own mobilehome space-rent stabilization ordinance, whose stated limit is "75% CPI, 8% Cap". The city's ordinance text is the authority — confirm the current figure with them.
Where does the water at El Rio MHP come from?
El Rio MHP operates its own public water system, registered with the EPA as CA4500246 ("EL RIO ESTATES"). That means the park — not a city utility — supplies and is accountable for the water at each lot. You can look up its monitoring and compliance record by that id in the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System.
Nearby parks in Santa Cruz County
| Park | Distance | Spaces |
|---|---|---|
| Clearview Ct | ~1.2 mi | 63 |
| Sorrento Oaks | ~1.9 mi | 92 |
| Yacht Harbor Manor | ~1.9 mi | 99 |
| Shoreline Mobile Estates | ~2.3 mi | 176 |
| Live Oak MHP | ~2.4 mi | 28 |
Free tools
- Park value & profitability estimator: what a 91-space park earns and what it's worth, at the cap rate you pick.
- Rent increase calculator: the 2026 California cap applied to a 91-space park.
- RUBS calculator: split one master-meter water bill across 91 lots so the pennies add up exactly.
- Water submeter calculator: two meter reads in, an at-cost tenant bill out.
- Notice generator: a clean, printable rent-increase notice with the dates filled in.
- Rent receipt generator: a printable receipt for a cash, check, or money-order payment — two copies to a sheet.
- Prorated rent calculator: the exact first-month charge when someone moves in mid-cycle.
Registry record
| State registry ID | 6488 |
|---|---|
| Registered with | The California Department of Housing and Community Development |
| Listed as | EL RIO MHP |
Data from official state registry that may be out of date.
Source: California Department of Housing and Community Development, Permit to Operate registry (gis.hcd.ca.gov), as of August 24, 2026. Counts come from the state's registry and can lag real life. See something out of date? Tell us, or claim the page.
https://lotsidekick.com/parks/california/santa-cruz/el-rio-mhp