Editing Forest City, North Carolina (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1880= 110
|1890= 419
|1900= 1090
|1910= 1592
|1920= 2312
|1930= 4069
|1940= 5035
|1950= 4971
|1960= 6556
|1970= 7179
|1980= 7688
|1990= 7475
|2000= 7549
|2010= 7476
|2020= 7377
|estyear=2022
|estimate=7162
|estref=<ref name="WorldPopulationReviewEst2022">{{cite web|url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/forest-city-nc-population|title=Forest City, North Carolina Population 2022 (Demographics)|access-date=July 3, 2022}}</ref>
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Forest City racial composition<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US3724080&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 21, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
| 4,444
| 60.24%
|-
!scope="row"| [[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
| 1,539
| 20.86%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
| 17
| 0.23%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
| 83
| 1.13%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]]
| 6
| 0.08%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
| 447
| 6.06%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
| 841
| 11.4%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 7,377 people, 3,128 households, and 1,582 families residing in the town.

===2014===
The population recorded for the town in 2014 was recorded to be 7,324 people. Forest City made up 0.002% of the total U.S. population and 0.07% of the total North Carolina State population in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=Population of Forest City, North Carolina |url=https://population.us/nc/forest-city/ |website=Populations |access-date=September 21, 2020}}</ref> The number of households reported from 2014 to 2018 was 3,182 and the number of people per household was reported to be 2.23. The percentage of people aged 5 or older that speak a language other than English at home was 8.4% as recorded from 2014 to 2018. The population density in 2014 was 853.12 per square mile (p/mi^2). The racial makeup of the town was 70.5% white alone, 23.9% black alone, 0.1% American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 0.6% Asian alone, 0.2% two or more races, 9.0% Hispanic or Latino of any race, and 66.5% white alone, not Hispanic or Latino. The number of veterans recorded from 2014 to 2018 was 278. The percentage of foreign-born persons was recorded from 2014 to 2018 as 3.6% of the population.

There were 3,245 households, out of which 27.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.5% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 19.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.5% were non-families. 33.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.90.

The reported percentage of people under the age of five years old in the town was 6.2%. The percentage of people under the age of 18 years old was 25.5%. The percentage of people 65 years old and over was 20.5%. The percentage of female persons was 55.3%, making the percentage of male persons 44.7%.

The median household income from 2014 to 2018, in terms of the worth of the dollar in 2018, was $27,861. The income per capita for the prior 12 months, as recorded from 2014 to 2018, was $17,716. The percentage of persons in poverty was 31.8%.<ref name="Forest City town, North Carolina">{{cite web |title=Forest City town, North Carolina |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/forestcitytownnorthcarolina/AFN120212#qf-flag-X |website=United States Census Bureau |access-date=September 21, 2020}}</ref>