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Smith Center city, Kansas: commercial real estate data.
Smith Center city is a Census city of 1,680 people across 1.23 square miles of land, in Smith County. Median household income is $56,007, 82.1 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Smith Center
What Smith Center is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.23 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,367
- County holding the largest share of its areaSmith County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Smith Center
How many people live in Smith Center
- Population1,680
- Median age44.7
- Population under 18333
- Share under 1819.8 percent
- Population 65 and over498
- Share 65 and over29.6 percent
- Households725
- Family households406
- Share of households that are families56.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Smith Center
- Median household income$56,007
- Per capita income$33,381
- Civilian labor force802
- Employed798
- Unemployed4 plus or minus 4
- Unemployment rate0.5 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Adults 25 and over1,236
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher20.2 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.3 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Smith Center
- Housing units863
- Occupied units725
- Vacant units138 plus or minus 61
- Vacancy rate16.0 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Owner occupied595
- Renter occupied130 plus or minus 45
- Ownership rate82.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$90,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$678
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.5 percent
- Single family units754
- Share single family87.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more97 plus or minus 41
- Share in buildings of two or more11.2 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Mobile homes12 plus or minus 11
- Median year structure built1957
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Smith Center gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute758
- Commuting under 15 minutes567
- Share commuting under 15 minutes74.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more114 plus or minus 42
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more15.0 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Drove alone82.1 percent
- Carpooled9.9 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.9 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Worked from home2.6 percent plus or minus 1.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Smith County, not Smith Center
Smith County context, not Smith Center figures
These are Smith County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Smith Center measurements.
- Establishments in Smith County126
- Employment at those establishments, Smith County874
- Covered employment, Smith County1,363
- Average annual pay, Smith County$41,908
- Average weekly wage, Smith County$806
- Housing units permitted, Smith County0
- Of those, single family, Smith County0
- County product, 2024, Smith County$220,803,000
- County product change over the prior year, Smith County-15.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Smith County$52,455
Every figure in this section is published for Smith County as a whole and is not a measurement of Smith Center. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Smith Center questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Smith Center, Kansas?
1,680, in 725 households. Smith Center city covers 1.23 square miles of land, which is 1,367 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Smith Center in?
Smith County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Smith Center?
$56,007. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $90,400. Median gross rent is $678 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Smith Center figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Smith County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Smith Center.
Is zoning published for Smith Center?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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