Sweet Home is a medium-sized city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 10,265 people and three associated neighborhoods, Sweet Home is the 58th largest community in Oregon.When you are in Sweet Home, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.28% of Sweet Home’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sweet Home is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Sweet Home who work in healthcare suport services (13.74%), office and administrative support (11.46%), and management occupations (10.45%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.79% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. One downside of living in Sweet Home, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.91 minutes every day commuting to work. As is often the case in a small city, Sweet Home doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The percentage of people in Sweet Home with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.30% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Sweet Home in 2022 was $30,957, which is lower middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $123,828 for a family of four. However, Sweet Home contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. 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 Asian. 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 Italian and Spanish.
