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Sweetwater city, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Sweetwater city is a Census city of 20,085 people across 3.87 square miles of land, in Miami-Dade County. Median household income is $54,967, 42.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $5.9 m.
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Sweetwater
What Sweetwater is
- Census place typecity
- Land area3.87 sq mi
- Water area0.41 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land5,190
- County holding the largest share of its areaMiami-Dade County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sweetwater
How many people live in Sweetwater
- Population20,085
- Median age43.8
- Population under 183,456
- Share under 1817.2 percent
- Population 65 and over3,374
- Share 65 and over16.8 percent
- Households6,721
- Family households5,156
- Share of households that are families76.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sweetwater
Income and work in Sweetwater
- Median household income$54,967
- Per capita income$24,017
- Civilian labor force10,656
- Employed10,190
- Unemployed466 plus or minus 265
- Unemployment rate4.4 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Adults 25 and over14,611
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher76.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.2 percent plus or minus 1.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sweetwater
Housing in Sweetwater
- Housing units7,080
- Occupied units6,721
- Vacant units359 plus or minus 141
- Vacancy rate5.1 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Owner occupied2,831
- Renter occupied3,890
- Ownership rate42.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$294,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,771
- Annual rent as a share of median income38.7 percent
- Single family units2,693
- Share single family38.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more3,384
- Share in buildings of two or more47.8 percent
- Mobile homes1,003
- Median year structure built1981
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sweetwater
How Sweetwater gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute9,212
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,277 plus or minus 298
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.9 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more4,289
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more46.6 percent
- Drove alone80.6 percent
- Carpooled5.9 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Public transport2.3 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Walked0.9 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Worked from home8.2 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sweetwater
SBA loans in Sweetwater (7(a))
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$5,902,000
- Average approval$1,180,400
- Median approval$1,360,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,442,000
- Largest approval$2,442,000
- Jobs supported38
- Jobs per approval7.6
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term180 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more40.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sweetwater
SBA loans in Sweetwater (504)
- Approvals34
- Gross approval$19,113,000
- Average approval$562,147
- Median approval$409,000
- Largest approval$2,505,000
- Jobs supported88
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sweetwater
Flood risk in Sweetwater
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number120660
- Currently effective map date09/11/09
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Miami-Dade County, not Sweetwater
Miami-Dade County context, not Sweetwater figures
These are Miami-Dade County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sweetwater measurements.
- Establishments in Miami-Dade County98,394
- Employment at those establishments, Miami-Dade County1,055,440
- Covered employment, Miami-Dade County1,257,569
- Average annual pay, Miami-Dade County$77,609
- Average weekly wage, Miami-Dade County$1,492
- Housing units permitted, Miami-Dade County10,608
- Of those, single family, Miami-Dade County2,231
- County product, 2024, Miami-Dade County$260,837,199,000
- County product change over the prior year, Miami-Dade County6.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Miami-Dade County$175,619
Every figure in this section is published for Miami-Dade County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sweetwater. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Sweetwater questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sweetwater, Florida?
20,085, in 6,721 households. Sweetwater city covers 3.87 square miles of land, which is 5,190 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sweetwater in?
Miami-Dade County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Sweetwater?
$54,967. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $294,200. Median gross rent is $1,771 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sweetwater businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $5.9 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $1,360,000, plus 34 504 approvals worth $19.1 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sweetwater, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sweetwater borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sweetwater. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Sweetwater in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Sweetwater appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 120660, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Sweetwater figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Miami-Dade County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Sweetwater.
Is zoning published for Sweetwater?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.