Sweetwater is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 6,676 people and three associated neighborhoods, Sweetwater is the 95th largest community in Tennessee.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Sweetwater is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sweetwater is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sweetwater who work in office and administrative support (14.48%), food service (11.96%), and sales jobs (7.15%). Also of interest is that Sweetwater has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) Sweetwater 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. Sweetwater has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sweetwater than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sweetwater may be for you. Being a small city, Sweetwater does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Sweetwater who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.75% of the adults in Sweetwater have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Sweetwater in 2022 was $25,949, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,796 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 Greek. The most common language spoken in Sweetwater is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
