Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

Pigeon Forge population, 2020 to 2024

Pigeon Forge added 44 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +57. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 85th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Pigeon Forge is 53% of it.

Pigeon Forge covers 13.82 square miles of land, for 466 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Pigeon Forge is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pigeon Forge is in

All of Pigeon Forge's residents live in Sevier County, which had 100,184 residents in 2024. Pigeon Forge holds 6.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pigeon Forge

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Pigeon Forge by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37862, 37863. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Pigeon Forge is

The Census internal point of Pigeon Forge is at 35.798000, -83.563800. Nashville, the capital, is 181.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sevierville, TN (18,231 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 24.7 miles away.

Daylight in Pigeon Forge

At 35.80° N, Pigeon Forge gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pigeon Forge

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Gatlinburg, 6.4 miles away, with 3,703 people.