Despite the fact that it is a small city, Forest Park has quite a few people who take public transportation – mostly the bus - for their daily commute to work. This helps to fill a real need in the city for affordable transportation.
In Forest Park, just 12.11% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Forest Park in 2022 was $21,689, which is lower middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $86,756 for a family of four. However, Forest Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Forest Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Forest Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Forest Park residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Forest Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.30% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Forest Park include Irish, African, German, Jamaican, and English.
Forest Park also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 17.97%.
The most common language spoken in Forest Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
