Smithville is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 5,546 people and four associated neighborhoods, Smithville is the 117th largest community in Tennessee.When you are in Smithville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.91% of Smithville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Smithville is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Smithville who work in office and administrative support (16.64%), sales jobs (8.26%), and healthcare (7.99%). 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, Smithville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Smithville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of Smithville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.79 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.The percentage of adults in Smithville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.00% of the adults in Smithville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Smithville in 2022 was $19,779, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,116 for a family of four. However, Smithville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Smithville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.44% of its population below the federal poverty line.Smithville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Smithville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Smithville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Smithville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.23% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Smithville include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Smithville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
