Forest Park, Georgia

Forest Park population, 2020 to 2024

Forest Park lost 477 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by -129. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 132nd; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Forest Park is 1.2 times that size.

Forest Park covers 9.22 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 2,093 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Forest Park is denser than the typical town.

What county Forest Park is in

All of Forest Park's residents live in Clayton County, which had 297,703 residents in 2024. Forest Park holds 6.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Forest Park

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Forest Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30294, 30297. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Forest Park is

The Census internal point of Forest Park is at 33.620500, -84.358200. Atlanta, the capital, is 9.0 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is East Point, GA (38,270 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Atlanta, GA, 10.5 miles away.

Daylight in Forest Park

At 33.62° N, Forest Park gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Forest Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Lake City, 1.4 miles away, with 2,889 people.