The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Sweet Home has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sweet Home a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Sweet Home, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.01 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Sweet Home does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Sweet Home have a very low rate of college education: just 8.78% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Sweet Home in 2022 was $28,349, which is lower middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $113,396 for a family of four. However, Sweet Home contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Sweet Home is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sweet Home home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sweet Home residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sweet Home include German, English, European, Irish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Sweet Home is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
