Forest Park is a medium-sized city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 19,839 people and six associated neighborhoods, Forest Park is the 88th largest community in Ohio.Forest Park is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-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. The percentage of people in Forest Park who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.85% of adults in Forest Park 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. Forest Park also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 16.22%. The most common language spoken in Forest Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
