About Forest Hills

Forest Hills is a tiny village located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 317 people and just one neighborhood, Forest Hills is the 435th largest community in North Carolina.

Forest Hills is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 88.73% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Forest Hills is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Forest Hills who work in teaching (25.35%), sales jobs (13.38%), and management occupations (11.97%).

Of important note, Forest Hills is also a village of artists. Forest Hills has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Forest Hills's character.

Also of interest is that Forest Hills has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Forest Hills is a small town where college students really create the town feel and character. So many small towns have lost population over the last 20-30 years that having the local college presence in the Forest Hills area, with all of the energy of the students filling area dorms and apartments each fall, really helps Forest Hills maintain a good economy.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Forest Hills spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.82 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.

Forest Hills is very much a car-oriented village. This is because the population of Forest Hills isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small village, Forest Hills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Forest Hills Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Forest Hills is a pretty powerful place. 71.43% of the adults in Forest Hills have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Forest Hills in 2000 was $25,949, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,796 for a family of four.

The people who call Forest Hills home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Forest Hills is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Forest Hills include German, Scotch-Irish, Irish, English, Scottish, Italian, Dutch, and European.

The most common language spoken in Forest Hills is English. Some people also speak Spanish.