Sweetwater is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 5,186 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Sweetwater is the 117th largest community in Tennessee.

Sweetwater is a blue-collar town, with 43.5% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. 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 jobs (10.99%), sales jobs (9.59%), and management occupations (5.28%).

Sweetwater is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Sweetwater isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.08% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small city, Sweetwater does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Sweetwater Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Sweetwater with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%: just 10.19% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sweetwater in 2000 was $16,746, which is middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $66,984 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Sweetwater is English.