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Smithville, TN
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Living in Smithville



Smithville is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 5,307 people and four associated neighborhoods, Smithville is the 117th largest community in Tennessee.

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!) Smithville 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. Smithville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Smithville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Smithville may be for you.

Being a small city, Smithville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The citizens of Smithville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.57% of adults in Smithville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Smithville in 2022 was $18,158, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,632 for a family of four. Smithville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.79% 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 Black or African-American. Smithville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.17% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Smithville include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Smithville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.


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