Forest Hills, Pennsylvania

Forest Hills is located at {{Coord|40|25|19|N|79|51|7|W|region:US_type:city}} (40.421918, –79.851872)."[https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990]". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of {{convert|1.6|sqmi|km2}}, all land.

Forest Hills has five borders, including Wilkinsburg and Churchill to the north, Wilkins Township to the east, Chalfant to the southeast, North Braddock to the south-southeast, and Braddock Hills from the south to the northwest. These municipalities, along with East Pittsburgh, Edgewood, Rankin, Swissvale, and Turtle Creek, make up the Woodland Hills School District.[http://www.whsd.k12.pa.us/ Woodland Hills School District]

{{US Census population

|1930= 4549

|1940= 5248

|1950= 6301

|1960= 8796

|1970= 9561

|1980= 8198

|1990= 7335

|2000= 6831

|2010= 6518

|2020= 6429

|footnote=Sources:{{cite web|title=Number and Distribution of Inhabitants:Pennsylvania-Tennessee|url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/03815512v1ch09.pdf|work=Fifteenth Census|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}{{cite web|title=Number of Inhabitants: Pennsylvania|url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/17216604v1p40ch02.pdf|work=18th Census of the United States|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=November 22, 2013}}{{cite web|title=Pennsylvania: Population and Housing Unit Counts|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/cph2/cph-2-40.pdf|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=November 22, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}{{cite web|title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population|url=https://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2012/SUB-EST2012-3.html|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=November 22, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019235623/http://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2012/SUB-EST2012-3.html|archive-date=October 19, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=P1_001N,NAME&for=place:*&in=state:42&key=5ccd0821c15d9f4520e2dcc0f8d92b2ec9336108|title=Census Population API|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=October 12, 2022}}

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As of the 2010 census,"[http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20150112190311/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t U.S. Census Bureau Fact Finder]". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-05-21. there were 6,518 people, 3,099 households, and 1,807 families residing in the borough. The population density was {{convert|4,073.8|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|people |people}}. There were 3,304 housing units at an average density of {{convert|2,065.0|/mi2|/km2}}. The racial makeup of the borough was 87.68% White, 9.14% African American, 0.09% Native American, 1.18% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.40% from other races, and 1.49% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.32% of the population.

There were 3,099 households, out of which 21.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.4% were married couples living together, 9.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.7% were non-families. 35.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 31.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.10 and the average family size was 2.74.

In the borough the population was spread out, with 18.7% under the age of 20, 4.3% from 20 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 33.2% from 45 to 64, and 19.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 47.5 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.6 males.

In 2000, the median income for a household in the borough was $44,922, and the median income for a family was $56,199. Males had a median income of $42,903 versus $31,103 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $26,505. About 4.7% of families and 5.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.2% of those under age 18 and 2.7% of those age 65 or over.

Forest Hills is located along the Route 30 portion of the Lincoln Highway, which, along with Greensburg Pike, serves as a main artery of the borough.

Until 2015, near the eastern border with Chalfant, there once stood an historic, five-million-volt Van de Graaff generator and particle accelerator known as the Westinghouse Atom Smasher.[http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMK85|Westinghouse Atom Smasher (Circa 1937) - Odd-Shaped Buildings on Waymarking.com]{{cite web |url=http://www.atomicconfluence.com/?m=201507 |title=My View of the Westinghouse Atom Smasher |last=Blake |first=Gloria Rogulin |date=July 31, 2015 |website=Atomic Confluence |access-date=December 8, 2019 }} The Atom Smasher operated from 1937 to 1958, and because of many important discoveries that were made using the device—it was designated an official historic landmark in 2010.{{cite journal |last1=Walter |first1=Marni Blake |date=September 1, 2015 |title=An Unlikely Atomic Landscape: Forest Hills and the Westinghouse Atom Smasher |url=https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/view/60195/60144 |journal=Western Pennsylvania History Magazine|publisher =Senator John Heinz History Center |volume=98 |issue=3 |pages=36–49 |access-date=December 3, 2019}} However, the apparatus was torn down in 2015, when the property that had served as the primary campus of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories from 1916 to 1956{{cite web |url=http://www.atomicconfluence.com/?tag=westinghouse-research-laboratories |title=The Echoes from Westinghouse at Forest Hills / Forest Hills Nuclear History |last1=Fey |first1=Maury |last2=Dollard |first2=Walt |date=April 3, 2015 |website=Atomic Confluence |access-date=December 7, 2019 }} was being prepared for redevelopment.{{cite news | last= Harkins | first= Jill | title= Atom smasher in Forest Hills torn down; restoration promised | newspaper= Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date= January 21, 2015 | url= http://www.post-gazette.com/news/science/2015/01/21/Forrest-Hill-nuclear-relic-waits-in-limbo/stories/201501200209 | access-date= December 4, 2019}}{{cite news | last =O'Neill | first =Brian | title =Brian O'Neill: With Forest Hills atom smasher's fall, part of history tumbles | newspaper =Pittsburgh Post-Gazette| date =January 25, 2015 | url =http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/brian-oneill/2015/01/25/Brian-O-Neill-With-Forest-Hills-atom-smasher-s-fall-part-of-history-tumbles/stories/201501250109 | access-date =December 4, 2019 }}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.foresthillspa.org Borough of Forest Hills official website]
• [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09232/991911-56.stm Local / Neighborhoods East] (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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Category:Populated places established in 1919

Category:Pittsburgh metropolitan area

Category:Boroughs in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Category:1919 establishments in Pennsylvania