About Foster

Foster is a very small town located in the state of Rhode Island. With a population of 4,274 people and just one neighborhood, Foster is the 37th largest community in Rhode Island.

Unlike some towns , Foster isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Foster are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Foster is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Foster who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.46%), sales jobs (9.98%), and management occupations (8.85%).

Also of interest is that Foster has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Because of many things, Foster is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Foster really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Foster perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Foster, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.93 minutes every day commuting to work.

Foster is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Foster isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.8% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Foster is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Foster Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Foster citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 27.74% of adults in Foster have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Foster in 2000 was $22,148, which is lower middle income relative to Rhode Island, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,592 for a family of four.

The people who call Foster home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Foster is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Foster include Italian, English, Irish, French, French Canadian, Polish, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Foster is English.