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Forest, MS
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Forest is a somewhat small city located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 5,330 people and three associated neighborhoods, Forest is the 65th largest community in Mississippi.

For a small city, Forest has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Forest exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.

The rate of college-level education in Forest is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.85% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Forest in 2022 was $21,007, which is lower middle income relative to Mississippi, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $84,028 for a family of four. However, Forest contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Forest is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Forest home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Forest residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Forest also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.97% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Forest include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Pennsylvania German.

In addition, Forest has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.57%).

The most common language spoken in Forest is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.


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