Pigeon Forge is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 6,215 people and three associated neighborhoods, Pigeon Forge is the 93rd largest community in Tennessee.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pigeon Forge is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pigeon Forge is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pigeon Forge who work in food service (17.56%), sales jobs (14.77%), and management occupations (14.56%). It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Pigeon Forge has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Pigeon Forge has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pigeon Forge than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pigeon Forge may be for you. Pigeon Forge is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The citizens of Pigeon Forge have a very low rate of college education: just 9.97% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Pigeon Forge in 2022 was $23,481, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,924 for a family of four. However, Pigeon Forge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pigeon Forge is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pigeon Forge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pigeon Forge residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Pigeon Forge also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.61% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pigeon Forge include German, Irish, Dutch, English, and Scots-Irish. In addition, Pigeon Forge has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (17.10%). The most common language spoken in Pigeon Forge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Indo-European.
