Sweet Home is a medium-sized city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 10,206 people and three associated neighborhoods, Sweet Home is the 58th largest community in Oregon.
A relatively large number of people in Sweet Home telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.77% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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 32.87 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.
In Sweet Home, just 9.63% 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 $30,187, which is lower middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,748 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, Irish, Norwegian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Sweet Home is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.