Forest City, FL population, income and ZIP codes

Forest City CDP is a mid-size town in Florida, with 14,871 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #259 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 72% of them. The median age here is 41.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Forest City CDP earn a median of $84,337 a year, 7.4% above the national figure of $78,538 and 23% above the $68,617 median for the 775 Florida cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 9.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Forest City CDP is valued at $364,900, 20.3% above the national figure and 20% above the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,706 a month, 21.3% above the national figure, or roughly $20,472 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 64.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.