This research article focuses on the effect of socio-economic status on creativity. In this study with regard to creativity–verbal, non-verbal and total creativity dimensions are considered and with regard to socio-economic status -high, moderate and low socioeconomic status (SES) are considered. Even Gender is considered as a Background variable of the study. The sample consisted of 300 boys and 300 girls, which were drawn by adopting stratified proportionate random sampling from the pre-university college students of Tumkur District. The data collected from the sample were analyzed by adopting t-test and ANOVA. The statistical analysis revealed that there was a main effect of socio-economic status on Creativity. On the other hand there was no interaction effect of SES and Gender on Creativity.