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.
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.
The citizens of Sweetwater are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.90% of adults in Sweetwater have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
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.
