Forest Park is a medium-sized city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 21,293 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Forest Park is the 37th largest community in Georgia.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Forest Park is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.5% of the Forest Park workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Forest Park is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Forest Park who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.48%), sales jobs (6.69%), and food service (5.63%).

Forest Park Information and Demographics

The population of Forest Park has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 6.63% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 14.96%.

The per capita income in Forest Park in 2000 was $14,932, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $59,728 for a family of four.

Forest Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Forest Park home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Forest Park is White, followed by African-American. 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 20.03% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Forest Park include Irish and English.

Forest Park also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.39%.

The most common language spoken in Forest Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.