Apartment buyers will find 156 flats for sale in Forest / Vorst. The current average price is €383,854; the lowest listed price is €115,000 and the highest is €1,200,000. Forest / Vorst is home to 56,289 people within 6.3 km². Its average age is close to 37, and women represent 51.6% of residents. Some 60% of residents are tenants, and average net income is €14,812 a year. Nationalities are 65.9% Belgian, 6.6% French, 3.5% Italian, 3.4% Portuguese, 3.4% Romanian, 3.3% Moroccan, 2.9% Spanish and 11% other. Dwellings average 4.8 rooms, while the Belgian average is 6; the average building year is 1929. Apartment buildings account for 63.8% of dwellings, with houses making up 36.2%. By building type, 60.9% are buildings and flat blocks, 32.4% closed-type houses, 3.7% commercial houses, 1.9% semi-closed houses, 0.8% other buildings and 0.2% open-type houses, farms or castles.
Road access includes an entrance to the R0, 4 minutes by car from the centre, and access to the A4 / E411–E25, 14 minutes away. The latter route connects Brussels with Namur, Arlon and Luxembourg City. Tram lines stopping in Forest / Vorst include STIB 3, 4, 51, 82 and 97; bus services include STIB 48, 49, 50, 54 and 74. The stations nearest the centre are Vorst-Oost / Forest-Est, Vorst-Zuid / Forest-Midi, Ukkel-Stalle / Uccle-Stalle, Anderlecht and Ukkel-Kalevoet / Uccle-Calevoet. Households in the municipality average 0.6 cars, compared with 1.3 nationally.
The local school and childcare network comprises 29 nurseries, 26 nursery schools, 26 primary schools and 8 secondary schools. Named examples are Le Toboggan and Sunflower Montessori; École Fondamentale Du Vignoble and Ecole Fondamentale Libre En Couleurs; École Primaire Kaléidoscope and Ecole Primaire Libre Sainte-Ursule; and Athenee Royal Victor Horta and Institut De Radioelectricite Et Cinematographie. Grocery options include 4 Delhaize, 2 Carrefour, 1 Match / Smatch, 1 Aldi, 1 LIDL and 1 Colruyt. Villo! has 17 bicycle stations, while Cambio has 13 car-sharing stations. No charging station is known in the municipality. Brussels Airport can be reached in 56 minutes by public transport or 21 minutes by car.