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Forest Home, AL

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Forest Home, AL: 1 USPS ZIP, population 491. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

Source:

ACS city ledger plate

Sheet FOREST-HOME-AL · Forest Home, AL 1 ZIPs · 491 pop · #21212/25278 · Butler County

INC-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · ABOVE-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-MID $51,667
  • RANK-BOTTOM #21212/25278
  • ABOVE-PEER over Greenville
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 86% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 491
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $16,000

Nearest income peer: Greenville, AL ( $5,990 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Forest Home

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Forest Home on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-06

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Forest Home, AL sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

16th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
491
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$51,667
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($51,667 average) · poverty 5.1%. The primary code (36030) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (86.3%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Alabama, Piedmont is the closest lower-income city and Pansey the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Forest Home.

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ZIP Codes in Forest Home, AL

These ZIP codes sit in Butler County, which covers 4 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Forest Home. See the Butler County roll-up →

Forest Home sits in the upper half of Butler County on income: Greenville and Georgiana report less, while Mc Kenzie reports more. Mc Kenzie marks the far end of that range at $66,150, 28% above Forest Home.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
36030 491 3 America/Chicago

On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Forest Home, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →

Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →

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