County / FIPS 47159
Smith County
Tennessee
Smith County runs 9 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
9
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
314
Smith County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
20,389
Median household income
$66,293
Poverty rate
10.0%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$243,800
Median gross rent
$922
Bachelor's degree or higher
18.5%
One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Smith County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$204.2M
Per resident
$10,261
Change since FY2021
+76%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $116M |
| 2022 | $105M |
| 2023 | $112M |
| 2024 | $130M |
| 2025 | $204M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Smith County ranks 1608th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Smith County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Highpoint Health-Riverview With Ascension Saint Th | Carthage |
Public schools in Smith County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carthage Elementary | Smith County | Carthage | 445 |
| Defeated Elementary | Smith County | Carthage | 277 |
| Forks River Elementary | Smith County | Elmwood | 202 |
| Gordonsville Elementary School | Smith County | Gordonsville | 326 |
| Gordonsville High School | Smith County | Gordonsville | 540 |
| New Middleton Elementary | Smith County | Gordonsville | 227 |
| Smith County High School | Smith County | Carthage | 501 |
| Smith County Middle School | Smith County | Carthage | 327 |
| Union Heights Elementary | Smith County | Carthage | 216 |