Forest Park, GA population, income and ZIP codes

Forest Park city is a mid-size town in Georgia, with 19,619 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #57 of 675 ranked by population — larger than 91% of them. The median age here is 32.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Park city earn a median of $42,286 a year, 46.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 26% below the $57,300 median for the 378 Georgia cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 16.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Forest Park city is valued at $119,000, 60.8% below the national figure and 38% below the $191,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,101 a month, 21.7% below the national figure, or roughly $13,212 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 31.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 38.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Forest Park city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 31.2% of median income while homes cost only 2.8× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.