In terms of college education, Forest Grove is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.14% of adults in Forest Grove have a college degree.
The per capita income in Forest Grove in 2018 was $31,797, which is upper middle income relative to Oregon, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,188 for a family of four. However, Forest Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Forest Grove is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Forest Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Forest Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Forest Grove also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.67% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Forest Grove include German, Irish, English, European, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Forest Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
