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Forestdale, Massachusetts.

A community in Barnstable County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Barnstable County’s.

Living in Forestdale, Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Forestdale, in Barnstable County, had 4,116 people in the 2020 census. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Barnstable County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.

People 4,116 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Forestdale for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.8% Barnstable County, August 2026; 3.7% a year before
Homes 89% lived in by their owners; 11% rented
  • 1,498households
  • 37%of adults have a degree
  • 4%below the poverty line
  • 28 mintypical commute
  • 5%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care24%
  • Building trades15%
  • Professional and business services11%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment9%
  • Government9%
  • Banks, insurance and property8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barnstable County had 96,491 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 38° and 20°; warmest in July, 77° and 63° 20° 30° 40° 50° 60° 70° 80° J 38° 20° F M A M J J 77° 63° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 38° and 20°; warmest in July, 77° and 63° 20° 30° 40° 50° 60° 70° 80° J 38° 20° F M A M J J 77° 63° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 63°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Sandwich weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Barnstable County

  1. Cape COD HospitalGeneral hospital1,984FTE
  2. Barnstable SchoolsSchool district884FTE
  3. Cape Air / Nantucket Air ServiceAir passenger carriers, scheduled659
  4. Falmouth HospitalGeneral hospital613FTE
  5. Falmouth SchoolsSchool district558FTE
  6. Captital Properties/Chatham Bars InnAuto courts, lodging505
  7. Cape Cod Community CollegeTwo-year college480
  8. Dennis-Yarmouth SchoolsSchool district466FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 156 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,262 people in all across the county; Forestdale 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) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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

  1. HurricanesRelatively moderate
  2. LightningRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Forestdale’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 Barnstable County.