About Forest Hills

Forest Hills is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,787 people and just one neighborhood, Forest Hills is the 127th largest community in Tennessee.

Forest Hills is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 96.71% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Forest Hills is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Forest Hills who work in management occupations (19.36%), sales jobs (15.61%), and legal occupations (12.69%).

Of important note, Forest Hills is also a city 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.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 8.15% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

In addition, Forest Hills is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Forest Hills is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Forest Hills a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Forest Hills has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Forest Hills's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Forest Hills is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Forest Hills, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.32% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Forest Hills Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Forest Hills, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Forest Hills is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 74.15% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Forest Hills in 2000 was $68,228, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $272,912 for a family of four. However, Forest Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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 African-American. Important ancestries of people in Forest Hills include English, German, Irish, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Forest Hills is English.