Best PlacesForest Park, OK Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Forest Park, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Forest Park ranks 27,886th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and the schools rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Forest Park
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Forest Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Forest Park ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 94% of towns
- TransitBetter than 93% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 92% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than 89% of towns
- BikingBetter than 88% of towns
Where Forest Park ranks low
- School gradeD−, better than only 2% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 6% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 59 pleasant days a year, better than only 7% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 11% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Forest Park
A household needs to earn about $78,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Forest Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $97,664, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Forest Park's effective rate of 0.77%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Forest Park
Forest Park runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Forest Park.
Who works in Forest Park, and how
Work in Forest Park centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 83%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Forest Park
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Forest Park.
What the weather is like in Forest Park, month by month
Forest Park sees roughly 59 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 52, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 52° | 39° | 30° |
| April | 74° | 61° | 51° |
| July | 93° | 82° | 73° |
| October | 76° | 63° | 53° |
Flying in and out of Forest Park
The nearest airport, Okc Will Rogers International, is about 12 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Dallas-Fort Worth International, about 182 miles away.
The best schools in and around Forest Park
Schools across Forest Park average a D−, better than 2% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Pleasant Hill Ec CtrD− · 11% proficient
- Millwood EsF · 5% proficient
Top middle schools
- Midwest City MsF · 12% proficient
- Millwood Arts Academy MsF · 7% proficient
Top high schools
- Midwest City HsD− · 15% proficient
- Millwood HsF · 5% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Forest Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Forest Park measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Forest Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Forest Park
Is Forest Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Forest Park ranks 27,886th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, transit, and cell coverage, and lowest on the schools and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Forest Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $300,457. The overall cost of living runs about 20% below the national average. Set against a $97,664 median income, cost of living beats 94% of towns.
Is Forest Park safe?
Forest Park is safer than 11% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $657 per resident a year.
Compare Forest Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Forest Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Forest Park represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Forest Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Forest Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Forest Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Forest Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Forest Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Forest Park detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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