Cashiers vs Forest Hills

A side-by-side comparison of Cashiers and Forest Hills: population, income, housing, and more.

Cashiers and Forest Hills are places in North Carolina. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Cashiers has the higher population (825 vs 366 in Forest Hills). Forest Hills has the higher median household income ($86,250 vs $73,455 in Cashiers). Since 2019, Cashiers's population has grown faster (+502.2% vs +20.4%).

Population, income & housing

	Cashiers	Forest Hills
Population	825	366
Median age	60.0 yrs	48.4 yrs
Median household income	$73,455	$86,250
Median home value	$360,000	—
Median gross rent	—	$853
Housing units	805	250
Homeownership rate	77.5%	58.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	37.7%	64.2%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Cashiers	Forest Hills
Population	137 → 825 (+502.2%)	304 → 366 (+20.4%)
Median household income	$93,750 → $73,455 (-21.6%)	$69,286 → $86,250 (+24.5%)
Median home value	$217,200 → $360,000 (+65.7%)	—
Median gross rent	$765 → $885 (+15.7%)	$770 → $853 (+10.8%)

Cashiers

Population

137825

Median household income

$93,750$73,455

Median home value

$217,200$360,000

Median gross rent

$765$885

Forest Hills

Population

304366

Median household income

$69,286$86,250

Median gross rent

$770$853

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Cashiers	Forest Hills
Under 5	0.0%	1.1%
5 to 17	19.6%	7.4%
18 to 24	1.6%	24.3%
25 to 34	11.9%	9.3%
35 to 44	11.2%	3.8%
45 to 54	5.2%	17.8%
55 to 64	20.8%	7.4%
65 to 74	15.5%	6.0%
75 and over	14.2%	23.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Cashiers	Forest Hills
White (non-Hispanic)	68.6%	80.9%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.8%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	12.7%	12.8%
Hispanic or Latino	18.7%	5.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Cashiers	Forest Hills
No high school diploma	4.5%	11.0%
High school graduate	49.2%	5.3%
Some college or associate's	8.6%	19.5%
Bachelor's degree	26.9%	17.9%
Graduate or professional degree	10.8%	46.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Cashiers	Forest Hills
Drove alone	91.4%	74.5%
Carpooled	8.6%	11.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	4.1%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	10.3%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Cashiers	Forest Hills
1-unit, detached	94.7%	63.2%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	1.2%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	18.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	6.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	1.6%
Mobile home & other	5.3%	10.0%

Poverty & households

	Cashiers	Forest Hills
Poverty rate	0.0%	24.9%
Average household size	2.06	1.63
Mean commute (minutes)	12	22
Median year structure built	1988	1975