Forest City, North Carolina

Forest City population, 2020 to 2024

Forest City added 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +9. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 124th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Forest City is 51% of it.

Forest City covers 8.59 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 861 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Forest City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Forest City is in

All of Forest City's residents live in Rutherford County, which had 65,587 residents in 2024. Forest City holds 11.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Forest City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Forest City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28043. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Forest City is

The Census internal point of Forest City is at 35.334700, -81.870800. Raleigh, the capital, is 184.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Shelby, NC (22,778 people), 18.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 59.3 miles away.

Daylight in Forest City

At 35.33° N, Forest City gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Forest City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Spindale, 3.4 miles away, with 4,168 people.