Smithville, Tennessee

Smithville population, 2020 to 2024

Smithville added 502 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.0%. In the latest year it moved by +126. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Smithville is 46% of it.

Smithville covers 5.89 square miles of land, for 942 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Smithville is close to the typical town.

What county Smithville is in

All of Smithville's residents live in DeKalb County, which had 21,747 residents in 2024. Smithville holds 25.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Smithville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Smithville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37166. 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 Smithville is

The Census internal point of Smithville is at 35.958400, -85.821400. Nashville, the capital, is 55.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is McMinnville, TN (14,032 people), 19.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Murfreesboro, TN, 34.4 miles away.

Daylight in Smithville

At 35.96° N, Smithville gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Smithville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Woodbury, 16.8 miles away, with 2,831 people.