For a small city, Forest Park has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Forest Park exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
The percentage of people in Forest Park with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.26% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Forest Park in 2022 was $20,145, which is low income relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,580 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 23.04% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Forest Park include Irish, African, English, Jamaican, and German.
Forest Park also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 15.25%.
The most common language spoken in Forest Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
