Pigeon Forge is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 6,446 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, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pigeon Forge who work in food service (18.61%), management occupations (13.57%), and sales jobs (11.07%). 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 are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.50% of adults in Pigeon Forge have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Pigeon Forge in 2022 was $25,016, 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 $100,064 for a family of four. However, Pigeon Forge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pigeon Forge is an extremely 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 35.84% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pigeon Forge include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Scots-Irish. Foreign born people are also an important part of Pigeon Forge's cultural character, accounting for 28.25% 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.
