A typical Forest Hills home is worth about $157,000
Up 0.9% in a year, 32% below the Kentucky typical home.
Only 2 sales in May 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.
What kind of housing town is Forest Hills?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
What it takes to buy in Forest Hills
Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Forest Hills home, with $97K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,470 a month here, $550 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Kentucky typical property tax (0.75% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 7.9% in five years
Slower than Kentucky (25.2%).
Show as a table
| January | Forest Hills | Kentucky |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $110,000 | $131,000 |
| 2018 | $111,000 | $138,000 |
| 2019 | $115,000 | $146,000 |
| 2020 | $120,000 | $155,000 |
| 2021 | $135,000 | $173,000 |
| 2022 | $148,000 | $191,000 |
| 2023 | $159,000 | $207,000 |
| 2024 | $145,000 | $216,000 |
| 2025 | $154,000 | $229,000 |
| 2026 | $158,000 | $233,000 |
| August 2026 | $157,000 | $233,000 |
A typical Forest Hills home worth $110K in September 2016 is worth about $157K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,470
Renters already here pay a median of $2,017.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Louisville, KY-IN HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
72% of Forest Hills households own their home
Half of Forest Hills’s homes were built before 1963.
Kentucky: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Forest Hills vs. its neighbors
Forest Hills is the least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Hills | $157K | +0.9% | $1,470 | — | $68,438 |
| Jeffersontown | $251K* | +4.1%† | $1,490 | 14 | $81,506 |
| Hurstbourne Acres | $321K* | +6.2%† | $1,460 | — | $66,891 |
Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
Neighbors talk housing
What Forest Hills buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.