Foster City Eviction Risk: Elevated

Cost burden runs 33% here against 44.9% across San Mateo County. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.4/10.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.1/10. SNAP participation runs 5.8% against 15.2% nationally.

The severe-burden share is 9%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.0% against 11.3% nationally. Nationally it ranks #15,451 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Social vulnerability reads 5.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.0 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. It tracks the San Mateo County average of 7.0 closely.

Average gross rent is $3,501, close to the Foster City average. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $181,625.

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