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Forest village, Louisiana: commercial real estate data.
Forest village is a Census village of 486 people across 1.67 square miles of land, in West Carroll Parish. Median household income is $40,347, 58.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Forest
What Forest is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area1.67 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land291 plus or minus 135
- County holding the largest share of its areaWest Carroll Parish, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest
How many people live in Forest
- Population486 plus or minus 226
- Median age24.0 plus or minus 19.9
- Population under 18169 plus or minus 77
- Share under 1834.8 percent plus or minus 22.6
- Population 65 and over47 plus or minus 32
- Share 65 and over9.7 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Households151 plus or minus 60
- Family households122 plus or minus 56
- Share of households that are families80.8 percent plus or minus 18.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest
Income and work in Forest
- Median household income$40,347 plus or minus $13,886
- Per capita income$14,324 plus or minus $3,682
- Civilian labor force179 plus or minus 98
- Employed142 plus or minus 73
- Unemployed37 plus or minus 49
- Unemployment rate20.7 percent plus or minus 24.9
- Adults 25 and over238 plus or minus 98
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher81.9 percent plus or minus 44.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher7.1 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.4 percent plus or minus 7.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest
Housing in Forest
- Housing units159 plus or minus 60
- Occupied units151 plus or minus 60
- Vacant units8 plus or minus 10
- Vacancy rate5.0 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Owner occupied88 plus or minus 45
- Renter occupied63 plus or minus 43
- Ownership rate58.3 percent plus or minus 18.8
- Median owner-occupied home value$43,300 plus or minus $32,496
- Median gross rent, monthly$950 plus or minus $424
- Annual rent as a share of median income28.3 percent plus or minus 15.9
- Single family units76 plus or minus 46
- Share single family47.8 percent plus or minus 22.8
- Units in buildings of two or more15 plus or minus 27
- Share in buildings of two or more9.4 percent plus or minus 16.6
- Mobile homes66 plus or minus 41
- Median year structure built1988
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest
How Forest gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute130 plus or minus 71
- Commuting under 15 minutes73 plus or minus 61
- Share commuting under 15 minutes56.2 percent plus or minus 35.6
- Commuting 30 minutes or more41 plus or minus 38
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more31.5 percent plus or minus 23.2
- Drove alone88.2 percent plus or minus 25.7
- Carpooled7.4 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home4.4 percent plus or minus 7.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
West Carroll Parish, not Forest
West Carroll Parish context, not Forest figures
These are West Carroll Parish figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Forest measurements.
- Establishments in West Carroll Parish167
- Employment at those establishments, West Carroll Parish1,474
- Covered employment, West Carroll Parish1,997
- Average annual pay, West Carroll Parish$42,812
- Average weekly wage, West Carroll Parish$823
- Housing units permitted, West Carroll Parish0
- Of those, single family, West Carroll Parish0
- County product, 2024, West Carroll Parish$236,759,000
- County product change over the prior year, West Carroll Parish-1.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, West Carroll Parish$43,916
Every figure in this section is published for West Carroll Parish as a whole and is not a measurement of Forest. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Forest questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Forest, Louisiana?
486, in 151 households. Forest village covers 1.67 square miles of land, which is 291 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Forest in?
West Carroll Parish, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Forest?
$40,347. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $43,300. Median gross rent is $950 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Forest figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for West Carroll Parish as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Forest.
Is zoning published for Forest?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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