Forest, IN population, income and housing data

Forest CDP is a very small community in Indiana, with 281 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #637 of 976 ranked by population — larger than 34% of them. The median age here is 31.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Forest CDP earn a median of not published a year. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 11.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Forest CDP is valued at $68,300, 77.5% below the national figure and 53% below the $145,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 100% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 281 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Forest CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Forest CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.