Forest Park, Ohio.
Typical home $233,544 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $1,570 (+6.8%). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Property tax and schools in Forest Park
Forest Park’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Forest Park is in Hamilton County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 3 school districts: Mt Healthy City, Northwest Local and Winton Woods City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$718 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,760 +1%
- $231,785$233,544 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,760 +29%
- $180,785$233,544 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$1,226
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Forest Park, OH rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Forest Park, OH rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Forest Park runs $200/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $376 in Nov 2023.
That is $1,770 a month against $1,570 rent: a $1,226 mortgage payment, plus $294 property tax and $250 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$1,770
- Renting$1,570
- Mortgage only$1,226
Property tax · $294/mo 1.51% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Hamilton County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $250/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, Hamilton County, Ohio
Forest Park is a city of 20,189 people in Hamilton County. Half its households earn more than $75,956 a year and half less, against $72,470 across Hamilton County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Hamilton County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 Hamilton County, Ohio, with a population large enough to feel like a full-sized suburb rather than a village. Residents are somewhat younger than in many American towns, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Homes here are about as likely to be owned as rented, with ownership just ahead, and a typical home costs more than a typical month's rent by a wide margin, as it does almost everywhere.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and professional and business services also well represented. Winton Woods City Schools is the largest workplace in town, followed by TP Mechanical Contractors and The Hillman Group. Unemployment across Hamilton County has eased compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly. Commutes are of middling length, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Winton Woods, a protected area, lies in or beside town and gives residents green space close to home. The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is a short drive away. Kings Island, an amusement park, is a longer drive. Winters are cold, with January the chilest month and the warmest weather arriving in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
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- 7,488households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamilton County had 514,266 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamilton Butler County Regional Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest employers in Forest Park
- American Financial Group Inc
- Christ Hospital
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital
- Fifth Third Bancorp
- Ford Motor Co
- General Electric Co
- Johnson & Johnson/Ethicon
- Kroger Co
From the City of Forest Park’s annual financial report for 2024, its schedule of principal employers (its source: “Ohio Department of Development”), as Ohio’s Auditor of State publishes it: the report. It gives no employee counts or ranks; they are in its order.
Natural hazards
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Hamilton County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 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$233,544
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Forest Park listings — 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 Park41.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Forest Park45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Forest Park20
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.