Foster City Eviction Risk: Elevated

Against San Mateo County at 44.9%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.4/10. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Disability prevalence runs 17.8% against 31.5% nationally. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 8.1/10. Food insecurity runs 7.0% against 17.8% nationally.

At $3,174 a month, rents run 9% under what the rest of Foster City commands. That is riskier than roughly 82% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 3.8/10 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. Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $200,417. 50% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.