Smyrna is a medium-sized city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 40,780 people and 12 constituent neighborhoods, Smyrna is the 13th largest community in Georgia.

Smyrna is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Smyrna is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Smyrna who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.21%), sales jobs (11.68%), and management occupations (11.38%).

Also of interest is that Smyrna has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Although the majority of commuting trips in the city are by private automobile, Smyrna is somewhat unusual for a city of its size for having a substantial number of people who use public transportation. The bus helps to get a lot of people to and from their jobs every morning, which benefits everyone in the Smyrna area by reducing both traffic and air pollution.

Smyrna Information and Demographics

The education level of Smyrna citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 40.33% of adults in Smyrna have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Smyrna in 2000 was $27,637, which is wealthy relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,548 for a family of four.

Smyrna is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Smyrna home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Smyrna is White, followed by African-American. Smyrna also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.21% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Smyrna include English, German, and Irish.

Smyrna also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 17.56%.

The most common language spoken in Smyrna is English. Some people also speak Spanish.