Smiths Grove is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 829 people and two associated neighborhoods, Smiths Grove is the 285th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Smiths Grove is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Smiths Grove is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Smiths Grove who work in office and administrative support (18.50%), food service (8.58%), and healthcare (6.43%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.11% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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, Smiths Grove has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Smiths Grove a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Smiths Grove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Smiths Grove are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.20% of adults in Smiths Grove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Smiths Grove in 2022 was $38,359, which is wealthy relative to Kentucky, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,436 for a family of four. However, Smiths Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Smiths Grove is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Smiths Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Smiths Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Smiths Grove include Irish, English, German, Norwegian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Smiths Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Persian and Italian.
