Forest Park, Georgia.
Typical home $161,260 (-6.2% in a year), asking rent $1,226 (-3.7%). Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$459 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,579 -6%
- $171,839$161,260 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,391 +4%
- $154,869$161,260 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Forest Park$846
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 86 years.
Typical home values in Forest Park, GA fell 6.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Forest Park, GA fell 3.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Forest Park runs $90/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $275 in Nov 2023.
That is $1,136 a month against $1,226 rent: a $846 mortgage payment, plus $117 property tax and $173 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Forest Park
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,136
- Renting$1,226
- Mortgage only$846
Property tax · $117/mo 0.87% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Clayton County, GA
Insurance & upkeep · $173/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia
Forest Park is a city of 19,932 people in Clayton County. Half its households earn more than $41,211 a year and half less, against $59,806 across Clayton County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 40% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 60% are rented. Unemployment in Clayton County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Forest Park is a city in Clayton County, just south of Atlanta, with a population younger than most of the country's. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and more people rent than own their homes. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow in most years and warm, wet summers.
Work. Many residents work in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in shops. Some of the biggest workplaces in Forest Park are distribution and logistics operations, including Kroger Fulfillment Network, Amazon and McLane. Most people travel to work rather than working from home, and the commute is a fairly typical one.
Things to do. Zoo Atlanta, the World of Coca-Cola museum and Centennial Olympic Park are all a short drive away. Mercedes-Benz Stadium, one of the best known sports venues in the region, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Georgia Aquarium is a longer drive away.
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- 6,690households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clayton County had 129,649 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 2 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Forest Park
- Kroger Fulfillment NetworkGeneral warehouse and storage661
- HD Supply Facilities MaintenanceService establishment equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers515
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services458
- McLaneDistribution of a general line of groceries404
- CloroxSpot removers manufacturing352
- Transervice Logistics"general freight trucking, long-distance, truckload"280
- Premier TransportationMotor freight carrier, general, local246
- Mid-South Roof SystemsRoofing contractors190
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,125 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of Forest ParkRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of Forest ParkRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of Forest ParkRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Forest ParkRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of Forest ParkRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Forest Park’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Clayton County and the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA metro.
Forest Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forest Park$161,260
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Forest Park listings, and the typical home goes pending in 53 days — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Forest Park28.26%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Forest Park102
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Forest Park24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Forest Park$167,836
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Forest Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forest Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.