[9][10] There are many notable companies headquartered in Foster City, such as Gilead Sciences, Zoox, and Replit.

Charles Zerbe, a San Francisco firefighter with a wife and two young sons, paid $23,500 for his five-bedroom house on Pilgrim Drive.

[15] United States census data shows the median household income for Foster City residents in 1970 was $30,000 and in 1980 was $60,000.

Foster City has ongoing issues with water intrusion from the San Francisco Bay and is potentially subject to permanent inundation as the sea level rises.

A project to improve the existing levee with a steel-reinforced wall has been underway since FEMA designated the entire area as a floodplain making residents subject to much higher flood insurance rates.

[19] Foster City, like most of the peninsula, has a mild warm-summer Mediterranean climate, with warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters.

Around 1993 Visa Inc. began consolidating various scattered offices in San Mateo, California to a location in Foster City.

Visa owns four buildings at the intersection of Metro Center Boulevard and Vintage Park Drive.

[30] As of 2009, after the headquarters move, the Foster City facilities remained the company's center of employment, and those buildings housed 2,400 employees as of 2009.

The lagoons were initially designed as a drainage system required in order to efficiently drain the lowland city.

Other councilmembers include Sam Hindi, Jon Froomin, Stacy Jimenez, Art Kiesel, and Patrick Sullivan.

Froomin was elected to office after former councilmember Herb Perez was recalled by a majority of Foster City voters.

Councilmember Sanjay Gehani was the first Mayor for Foster City of Indian descent.

[38][39] According to the California Secretary of State, as of February 10, 2019, Foster City has 16,568 registered voters.

Foster City's Werder Pier is a remainder of the original expanse of the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge.

Unfortunately, due to much needed repair, the once popular fishing pier is no longer in operation[when?].

A number of San Francisco professional athletes have called Foster City home.

[citation needed] Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, was raised in Foster City.

Norman Hsu, the Hong Kong-born convicted criminal (Ponzi scheme scam artist) and political activist, is a former resident of Foster City.

The movie Over the Edge is based on events[clarification needed] occurring in Foster City and chronicled in a 1973 article titled "Mousepacks: Kids on a Crime Spree" in the San Francisco Examiner.

Foster City TV provides programming through a dedicated government-access television (GATV) channel.