The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Pigeon Forge has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pigeon Forge a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Pigeon Forge does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
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.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Pigeon Forge's cultural character, accounting for 17.10% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Pigeon Forge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Indo-European.
