Forest Park, Oklahoma.
Typical home $300,416 (+4.5% in a year). Oklahoma City, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$816 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,052 +5%
- $287,364$300,416 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,306 +25%
- $241,110$300,416 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$1,577
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Forest Park, OK rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forest Park, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
Forest Park is a town of 1,049 people in Oklahoma County. Half its households earn more than $103,929 a year and half less, against $66,679 across Oklahoma County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Oklahoma County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Oklahoma County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 very small town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and renting is rare. Household incomes run well above the county's, and no one in town is recorded as living below the poverty line. Winters are cold but short of harsh, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Oklahoma County, some of the largest workplaces are OU Medical Center, Oklahoma City Schools and SSM Health ST Anthony Hospital. A fair number of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum are both in or beside town. A short drive away are the Oklahoma City National Memorial, a museum, and Frontier City, an amusement park.
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- 346households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 0%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Oklahoma County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oklahoma County had 497,127 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Spencer 2ENE Mesonet weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oklahoma County
- SSM Health St Anthony Hospital - MIDGeneral hospital17,619FTE
- United States Air ForceAircraft manufacturing8,693
- OU Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,385FTE
- Oklahoma City SchoolsSchool district4,756FTE
- University of Oklahoma-Health Sciences CenterUniversity or college4,405
- Edmond SchoolsSchool district3,176FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,869
- Federal Aviation AdministrationFederal government · Department of Transportation2,727
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 707 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 107,269 people in all across the county; Forest Park has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Oklahoma County and the Oklahoma City, OK 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$300,416
- Oklahoma$220,801
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Forest Park7
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.