Forestville (Butler Co.), PA population, income and housing data

Forestville CDP (Butler County) is a very small community in Pennsylvania, with 280 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1605 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 19% of them. The median age here is 34.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Forestville CDP (Butler County) earn a median of not published a year. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 35.7% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Forestville CDP (Butler County) is valued at $139,600, 54% below the national figure and 28% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $967 a month, 31.2% below the national figure, or roughly $11,604 across a full year. 55.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 280 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Forestville CDP (Butler County) against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Forestville CDP (Butler County) 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.