# Forest Hill, Texas electricity: Oncor wires and 4,550 competitive homes

_Updated October 19, 2026. Data: ERCOT Oct 5, 2026; Power to Choose Oct 19, 2026, 7:59 AM CT._

**In short:** ERCOT counts 4,550 active residential meters with a Forest Hill address, all on Oncor's wires (October 5, 2026). Nearly every Forest Hill address in our data is on Oncor's wires and can pick a retail provider.

## Moving to Forest Hill

Local numbers for setting up a home in Forest Hill, each checked on the official source. More contacts: https://powerhopper.energy/texas-electricity/forest-hill/move-in-information

- **Water and utility billing:** utility billing (start, transfer or stop water service), 817-568-3030.
- **Trash pickup:** Waste Connections: trash and recycling, 817-871-2000.
- **Natural gas:** Atmos Energy: customer service, 888-286-6700.
- **Public schools:** Fort Worth ISD, Everman ISD.
- **Driver license:** Texas DPS Driver License Office: Fort Worth East, 512-424-2600.

## Who delivers electricity in Forest Hill?
ERCOT counts 4,550 active residential meters with a Forest Hill address, all on Oncor's wires (October 5, 2026).

## Can every address in Forest Hill choose?
No split flag on any ZIP code that holds Forest Hill's 4,550 competitive homes; most streets here can shop.

## What is different about Forest Hill?
- Forest Hill counted about 14,056 residents in the Census Bureau's 2025 estimate, against 13,956 in the 2020 base, a change of +0.7%. The largest one-year change was +372 people, from July 2022 to July 2023. July 1 estimates in between: 13,843 (2021), 13,950 (2022), 14,322 (2023), 14,240 (2024). (Source: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/cities/totals/sub-est2025_48.csv)
- Forest Hill covers 4.2 square miles of land (Census 2025 Gazetteer). That works out to about 3,370 residents and 1,079 occupied households per square mile of land, with roughly 3.1 residents for every Forest Hill household. (Source: https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/cities/totals/sub-est2025_48.csv, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/)
- Of the 3,564,530 homes Oncor serves on the competitive market, 0.1% have a Forest Hill mailing address. (Source: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203)
- ERCOT's daily extracts logged 20 newly created home meters in the ZIP codes most Forest Hill homes use between Oct. 7 and Oct. 18, 2026; the busiest was 76140 with 19. Another 66 went from vacant to active over the same days. (Source: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203)
- On October 5, 2026, ERCOT showed 1,788 home meters switched off (de-energized) in the ZIP codes most Forest Hill homes use, against 29,726 switched on; that 5.7 percent is mostly vacant houses and apartments between occupants. (Source: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203)
- Most Forest Hill electricity customers live in 76140: 2,279 homes, or 50 percent of the 4,550 with a Forest Hill address; the full ZIP comes to 1.27 meters a household. (Source: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/)
- Among the 39 cities and towns that reach into Tarrant County, Forest Hill places 24 for competitive homes on its postal city; the next one up is Roanoke, at 4,634. (Source: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203)
- By the Census Bureau's 2025 estimates, Forest Hill is the number 22 city or town by population among the 42 that reach into Tarrant County, one place ahead of Trophy Club (13,695 residents). (Source: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/cities/totals/sub-est2025_48.csv)
- Mailing cities on the 12,565 competitive home meters in 76140, Forest Hill's main ZIP code: Fort Worth 7,911, Forest Hill 2,279, Everman 2,031, Mansfield 290. A mailing city is not a city limit, so the service address, not the postal name, settles which utility serves a home. (Source: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203)
- Renting is most common in 76119, where the ACS 2020-2024 counts 45.3 percent of households as renters; in that part of Forest Hill, electricity accounts change hands with each lease. (Source: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/)
- The ACS 2020-2024 median household income tops out in 76140 ($75,955) and bottoms out in 76119 ($51,267) among Forest Hill's core ZIP codes, where 45.0 and 30.2 percent of households, respectively, report electric bills above $250. (Source: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/)
- Forest Hill's land splits across 2 main ZIP codes, led by 76119 (50%) and 76140 (50%), per the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. (Source: https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/)

## By the numbers
- Population (July 1, 2025 estimate): 14,056
- Population (2020 estimates base): 13,956
- Occupied households (ACS 2020-2024): 4,499
- Active residential meters with a Forest Hill address: 4,550
- Active business meters with a Forest Hill address: 574
- Residential meters per Census household: 1.01
- Delivery utilities (homes): Oncor 4,550
- Counties: Tarrant
- ZIP codes touching Forest Hill: 2
- Split ZIP codes (flagged below): 0

## Plan prices (median ¢/kWh at 500 / 1,000 / 2,000 kWh)
- Oncor: 14.1 / 13.4 / 13.2; delivery 6.8673¢/kWh + $4.06/mo

## ZIP codes
**Not every address in these ZIP codes has retail choice; check your exact address.**

| ZIP | Postal cities | Land in city | Competitive homes | Households | Ratio | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76119 | Fort Worth 87%, Forest Hill 13% | 13% | 17,149 | 15,642 | 1.1 | Near-full coverage.  |
| 76140 | Fort Worth 63%, Forest Hill 18%, Everman 16% | 8% | 12,577 | 9,921 | 1.27 | Near-full coverage. 19 new residential meters Oct 7-18, 2026. Mostly outside Forest Hill city limits. |

## Business electricity in Forest Hill
574 active business meters. Power Hopper compares offers from retail electric providers and direct suppliers; for high-consumption businesses we can run a competitive bid. No savings or bidder count is promised. Businesses in Texas retail-choice areas can request a rate review online.

## Questions
**Is Forest Hill deregulated for electricity?** Most Forest Hill homes can. ERCOT's October 5, 2026 extract has 4,550 Forest Hill-addressed homes on Oncor's competitive system, compared with 4,499 households in the Census survey. No Forest Hill ZIP code carries a split flag, but only an address lookup is certain.
**Where do most Forest Hill electricity customers live?** That is 76140, home to 2,279 of the competitive meters with a Forest Hill address. ZIP-wide: 12,577 ERCOT meters, about 9,921 Census households, 1.27 per household.
**How many Forest Hill households have a $250 electric bill?** 76140 has the highest share of $250-plus monthly electric bills among Forest Hill's core ZIP codes (45.0 percent of households, ACS 2020-2024); 76119 has 30.2 percent. Bigger and all-electric homes push the share up.
**How do I start electric service at a new Forest Hill address?** Confirm the address is on Oncor's wires, then pick a plan and a start date. In 76140, 13.3% of residents moved in the past year (ACS); 40 meters in 76140 went vacant-to-active Oct. 7-18, 2026.
**Why does my Forest Hill home have a Fort Worth address?** 76119 covers part of Forest Hill, but the Postal Service names most of it Fort Worth: that postal city is on 87 percent of the ZIP's 17,149 competitive home meters, Forest Hill on 13 percent. Your mailing city is not your city limits; the service address decides the utility.
**Who restores power in Forest Hill after an outage?** Oncor, at oncor.com/outages: it carries power to all 4,550 Forest Hill-addressed competitive homes, whatever retail provider bills them.

## Sources
- ERCOT TDSP ESIID Extract (report 203): full extract as of Oct 5, 2026; daily files Oct 7-18, 2026: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203
- Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates (B25003 households, B01003 population): https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/
- Census Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/cities/totals/sub-est2025_48.csv
- Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place and ZCTA-to-county relationship files: https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/
- EIA-861 (2024) utility service territories by county: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/
- PUCT Power to Choose residential offer export, Oct 19, 2026, 7:59 AM CT: https://www.powertochoose.org/en-us/Plan/ExportToCsv
- PUCT: Choosing an Electric Plan: https://www.puc.texas.gov/consumer-help/electricity/electric-plan/
- PUCT broker directory (BR260201): https://www.puc.texas.gov/industry/electric/directories/brk/alpha_brk/
- Oncor Electric Delivery: https://www.oncor.com/
- Oncor delivery tariff (effective October 4, 2026): https://interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/59249_105_1676040.PDF
- Census Bureau Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/cities/totals/sub-est2025_48.csv
- Census Bureau 2025 Gazetteer Files, Texas places (land and water area): https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html
- Census Bureau Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/cities/totals/sub-est2025_48.csv
- Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/
- ERCOT TDSP ESIID Extract (report 203), Oct 5, 2026: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203
- ERCOT daily TDSP ESIID Extract files, Oct 7-18, 2026, via Power Hopper's Oct 18 ZIP study: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203
- ERCOT TDSP ESIID Extract (report 203), Oct 5, 2026: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203
- ERCOT TDSP ESIID Extract (report 203), Oct 5, 2026: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203
- Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/
- ERCOT TDSP ESIID Extract (report 203), Oct 5, 2026: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203
- Census Bureau Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/cities/totals/sub-est2025_48.csv
- ERCOT TDSP ESIID Extract (report 203), Oct 5, 2026: https://www.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=203
- Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/
- Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/
- Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file: https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/

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