Another notable thing is that Gatlinburg is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the city experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller city.
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!) Gatlinburg 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. Gatlinburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gatlinburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gatlinburg may be for you.
Being a small city, Gatlinburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Gatlinburg is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.78% of adults in Gatlinburg have a college degree.
The per capita income in Gatlinburg in 2022 was $30,425, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,700 for a family of four. However, Gatlinburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gatlinburg is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gatlinburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gatlinburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Gatlinburg also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.92% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gatlinburg include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
In addition, Gatlinburg has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.79%).
The most common language spoken in Gatlinburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
