It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Sweet Home has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Sweet Home has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sweet Home than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sweet Home may be for you.
One downside of living in Sweet Home, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.01 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Sweet Home does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Sweet Home, just 8.78% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
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.
