Texas · Census place 4826544

Forest Hill, Texas

Forest Hill is a city in Tarrant County, Texas with an estimated 14,314 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 200th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
14,314
#200 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+2.7%
+372 people
Land area
4.2 sq mi
Density
3,433 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Forest Hill. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Forest Hill population, 2020 to 2024

Forest Hill added 372 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.7%. In the latest year it moved by -6. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 220th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Forest Hill is 93% of it.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 13,950. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Forest Hill covers 4.17 square miles of land, for 3,433 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Forest Hill is denser than the typical town.

What county Forest Hill is in

All of Forest Hill's residents live in Tarrant County, which had 2,230,708 residents in 2024. Forest Hill 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 Hill

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Forest Hill by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76119, 76140. 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 Hill is

The Census internal point of Forest Hill is at 32.661900, -97.266200. Austin, the capital, is 167.3 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Crowley, TX (20,483 people), 8.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Arlington, TX, 8.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
32.661900, -97.266200
DMS
32°39'42.84"N 97°15'58.32"W
UTM
14N 662589.7E 3615134.0N
Geohash
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Plus code
8644MP6M+QG

Daylight in Forest Hill

At 32.66° N, Forest Hill gets about 14 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Forest Hill

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Everman, 2.5 miles away, with 6,347 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Forest Hill, TX?

14,314 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 372 (2.7%) from 13,942 in July 2020.

What county is Forest Hill in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Forest Hill?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 76119, 76140.

How far is Forest Hill from Austin?

167.3 miles (269.3 km) in a straight line, heading S from Forest Hill.

What is the nearest larger city to Forest Hill?

Crowley, TX, with 20,483 residents, 8.0 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.