Tennessee · Census place 4727020

Forest Hills, Tennessee

Forest Hills is a city in Davidson County, Tennessee with an estimated 4,455 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 113th largest of 232 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,455
#113 of 232 in Tennessee
Change since 2020
-11.2%
-563 people
Land area
9.2 sq mi
Density
482 / sq mi
State median 947
Orange pin: Forest Hills. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Nashville.

Forest Hills population, 2020 to 2024

Forest Hills lost 563 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -11.2%. In the latest year it moved by -69.

5,01820204,78520214,64420224,52420234,4552024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 5,037. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Forest Hills covers 9.24 square miles of land, for 482 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Forest Hills is less dense than the typical town.

What county Forest Hills is in

All of Forest Hills's residents live in Davidson County, which had 729,505 residents in 2024. Forest Hills holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Forest Hills

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Forest Hills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37027, 37215. 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 Hills is

The Census internal point of Forest Hills is at 36.070000, -86.836200. Nashville, the capital, is 7.2 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oak Hill, TN (4,485 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Nashville-Davidson, TN, 7.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
36.070000, -86.836200
DMS
36°04'12.00"N 86°50'10.32"W
UTM
16N 514749.9E 3991724.9N
Geohash
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Plus code
868M35C7+2G

Daylight in Forest Hills

At 36.07° N, Forest Hills gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Forest Hills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Belle Meade, 2.3 miles away, with 2,590 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Forest Hills, TN?

4,455 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 563 (11.2%) from 5,018 in July 2020.

What county is Forest Hills in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Forest Hills?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 37027, 37215.

How far is Forest Hills from Nashville?

7.2 miles (11.7 km) in a straight line, heading NNE from Forest Hills.

What is the nearest larger city to Forest Hills?

Oak Hill, TN, with 4,485 residents, 2.4 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.