Foster City Eviction Risk: Elevated

Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The clearest offset is court filing pressure at 1.4/10.

Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1.8/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.1/10.

Food insecurity runs 8.4% against 17.8% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.3% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. On the national scale it lands near the 84th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 4.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

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 26% of average household income of $164,141. 46% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.