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.
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 32.87 minutes every day commuting to work.
Sweet Home 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.
The population of Sweet Home has a very low overall level of education: only 9.63% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
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.