Forest Hill, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Forest Hill city is a mid-size town in Texas, with 13,923 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #215 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 88% of them. The median age here is 33.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Hill city earn a median of $59,653 a year, 24% below the national figure of $78,538 and 8% below the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. 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 15.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Forest Hill city is valued at $171,300, 43.5% below the national figure and 4% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,506 a month, 7.1% above the national figure, or roughly $18,072 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.3% 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 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 69.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 Hill city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.3% of median income while homes cost only 2.9× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.