About Sweet Water

Sweet Water is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 263 people and just one neighborhood, Sweet Water is the 342nd largest community in Alabama.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sweet Water is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.2% of the Sweet Water workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Sweet Water is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sweet Water who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.95%), teaching (14.74%), and sales jobs (7.37%).

Being a small town, Sweet Water does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Sweet Water Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Sweet Water rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.89% of adults 25 and older in Sweet Water have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 14.96% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Sweet Water in 2000 was $19,582, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $78,328 for a family of four.

The people who call Sweet Water home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sweet Water is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sweet Water include English and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Sweet Water is English.