Smiths Creek is a somewhat small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 9,604 people and two associated neighborhoods, Smiths Creek is the 120th largest community in Michigan.When you are in Smiths Creek, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.48% of Smiths Creek’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Smiths Creek is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Smiths Creek who work in healthcare (9.56%), sales jobs (8.96%), and management occupations (5.69%). Also of interest is that Smiths Creek has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Smiths Creek 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. Smiths Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Smiths Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Smiths Creek may be for you. Being a small town, Smiths Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Smiths Creek are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.11% of adults in Smiths Creek have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Smiths Creek in 2022 was $30,646, which is middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,584 for a family of four. However, Smiths Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Smiths Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Smiths Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Smiths Creek include German, Polish, Irish, English, and French. The most common language spoken in Smiths Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
