Forestdale, MA population, income and ZIP codes

Forestdale CDP is a small town in Massachusetts, with 3,716 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #141 of 248 ranked by population — larger than 43% of them. The median age here is 42.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Forestdale CDP earn a median of $105,368 a year, 34.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 6% above the $99,537 median for the 222 Massachusetts 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 3.9% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Forestdale CDP is valued at $462,500, 52.4% above the national figure and 7% below the $497,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,790 a month, 27.3% above the national figure, or roughly $21,480 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.4% 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 4.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 90.4% 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. 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.