Smižany

Ethnicity

In year 2021 was 8838 people by ethnicity 7884 as Slovak, 810 as Not found out, 442 as Romani, 50 as Rusyn, 31 as Czech, 26 as Other, 13 as Polish, 9 as German, 8 as Ukrainian, 8 as Russian, 8 as Hungarian, 3 as Chinese, 3 as English, 2 as Irish, 2 as Vietnamese, 2 as Austrian, 1 as Jewish, 1 as Italian and 1 as Bulgarian.

Note on population: The difference between the population numbers above and in the census (here and below) is that the population numbers above are mostly made up of permanent residents, etc.; and the census should indicate the place where people actually mainly live.
For example, a student is a citizen of a village because they have permanent residence there (they lived there as a child and has parents), but most of the time he studies at a university in the city.

The municipality has a significant Roma community. In 2019, they constituted an estimated 32% of the local population, or 2898 people, concentrated in the settlement outside of the municipal core.^[9]

Religion

In year 2021 was 8838 people by religion 6093 from Roman Catholic Church, 1279 from None, 764 from Not found out, 287 from Evangelical Church, 190 from Greek Catholic Church, 79 from Christian Congregations in Slovakia, 26 from Ad hoc movements, 24 from Other and not ascertained christian church, 18 from Eastern Orthodox Church, 14 from Other, 12 from Calvinist Church, 12 from Church of the Brethren, 11 from Jehovah's Witnesses, 9 from Buddhism, 9 from Apostolic Church, 4 from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3 from Paganism and natural spirituality, 2 from Old Catholic Church, 1 from Islam and 1 from United Methodist Church.