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!) Pikeville 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. Pikeville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pikeville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pikeville may be for you.
Pikeville 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 rate of college-level education in Pikeville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.15% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pikeville in 2022 was $22,073, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,292 for a family of four. However, Pikeville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pikeville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pikeville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pikeville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pikeville include Irish, German, English, Hungarian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Pikeville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
