Forest Park is a medium-sized city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 19,878 people and six associated neighborhoods, Forest Park is the 88th largest community in Ohio.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Forest Park is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Forest Park is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Forest Park who work in office and administrative support (13.27%), sales jobs (8.44%), and healthcare (7.29%). Also of interest is that Forest Park has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. In terms of college education, Forest Park is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.85% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Forest Park in 2022 was $33,034, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,136 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 11.51% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Forest Park include German, Irish, English, African, and Italian. In addition, Forest Park has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (16.22%). The most common language spoken in Forest Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
