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Sweetwater, TN
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Sweetwater profile


Living in Sweetwater



Sweetwater is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 6,451 people and three associated neighborhoods, Sweetwater is the 95th largest community in Tennessee.

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, Sweetwater has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sweetwater a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Sweetwater is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

In terms of college education, the citizens of Sweetwater rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.90% of adults 25 and older in Sweetwater have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Sweetwater in 2022 was $28,098, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,392 for a family of four. However, Sweetwater contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sweetwater is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sweetwater home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sweetwater residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sweetwater include German, English, Irish, European, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Sweetwater is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.


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