Ohio · Census place 3927706

Forest Park, Ohio

Forest Park is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio with an estimated 20,033 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 86th largest of 526 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
20,033
#86 of 526 in Ohio
Change since 2020
-0.7%
-135 people
Land area
6.5 sq mi
Density
3,106 / sq mi
State median 2,000
Orange pin: Forest Park. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Columbus.

Forest Park population, 2020 to 2024

Forest Park lost 135 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +86. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 139th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Forest Park is 1.4 times that size.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 20,191. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Forest Park covers 6.45 square miles of land, for 3,106 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Forest Park is denser than the typical town.

What county Forest Park is in

All of Forest Park's residents live in Hamilton County, which had 837,359 residents in 2024. Forest Park holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Forest Park

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Forest Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 45240. 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 39.286200, -84.526000. Columbus, the capital, is 93.6 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fairfield, OH (45,094 people), 3.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cincinnati, OH, 10.1 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
39.286200, -84.526000
DMS
39°17'10.32"N 84°31'33.60"W
UTM
16N 713375.6E 4351455.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
86FQ7FPF+FH

Daylight in Forest Park

At 39.29° N, Forest Park gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 32 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 Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Greenhills, 1.4 miles away, with 3,699 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Forest Park, OH?

20,033 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 135 (0.7%) from 20,168 in July 2020.

What county is Forest Park in?

Hamilton County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Forest Park?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 45240.

How far is Forest Park from Columbus?

93.6 miles (150.7 km) in a straight line, heading ENE from Forest Park.

What is the nearest larger city to Forest Park?

Fairfield, OH, with 45,094 residents, 3.2 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.