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Sweet Home city, Oregon: commercial real estate data.
Sweet Home city is a Census city of 10,078 people across 5.31 square miles of land, in Linn County. Median household income is $56,927, 66.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 17 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $5.2 m.
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Sweet Home
What Sweet Home is
- Census place typecity
- Land area5.31 sq mi
- Water area0.49 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,899
- County holding the largest share of its areaLinn 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.
Sweet Home
How many people live in Sweet Home
- Population10,078
- Median age42.4
- Population under 181,875
- Share under 1818.6 percent
- Population 65 and over1,712 plus or minus 362
- Share 65 and over17.0 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Households4,262
- Family households2,702
- Share of households that are families63.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sweet Home
Income and work in Sweet Home
- Median household income$56,927
- Per capita income$30,957
- Civilian labor force4,431
- Employed3,960
- Unemployed471 plus or minus 243
- Unemployment rate10.6 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Adults 25 and over7,622
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher83.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher11.3 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.8 percent plus or minus 1.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sweet Home
Housing in Sweet Home
- Housing units4,310
- Occupied units4,262
- Vacant units48 plus or minus 52
- Vacancy rate1.1 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Owner occupied2,853
- Renter occupied1,409
- Ownership rate66.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$273,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,213
- Annual rent as a share of median income25.6 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Single family units3,124
- Share single family72.5 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more611 plus or minus 212
- Share in buildings of two or more14.2 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Mobile homes552 plus or minus 196
- Median year structure built1968
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sweet Home
How Sweet Home gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute3,367
- Commuting under 15 minutes833 plus or minus 228
- Share commuting under 15 minutes24.7 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,946 plus or minus 421
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more57.8 percent
- Drove alone76.3 percent
- Carpooled8.7 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.6 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Worked from home12.8 percent plus or minus 5.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sweet Home
SBA loans in Sweet Home (7(a))
- Approvals17
- Gross approval$5,217,000
- Average approval$306,882
- Median approval$50,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,850,000
- Largest approval$1,980,000
- Jobs supported57
- Jobs per approval3.4
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full1
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises11.8 percent
- Distinct lenders7
- Distinct industries by NAICS13
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 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.
Sweet Home
SBA loans in Sweet Home (504)
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$2,583,000
- Average approval$1,291,500
- Median approval$2,303,000
- Largest approval$2,303,000
- Jobs supported26
- Loans with a final outcome1
- 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.
Linn County, not Sweet Home
Linn County context, not Sweet Home figures
These are Linn County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Sweet Home measurements.
- Establishments in Linn County2,846
- Employment at those establishments, Linn County37,099
- Covered employment, Linn County48,603
- Average annual pay, Linn County$57,436
- Average weekly wage, Linn County$1,105
- Housing units permitted, Linn County309
- Of those, single family, Linn County201
- County product, 2024, Linn County$6,881,395,000
- County product change over the prior year, Linn County3.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Linn County$58,377
Every figure in this section is published for Linn County as a whole and is not a measurement of Sweet Home. 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.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- 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
Sweet Home questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Sweet Home, Oregon?
10,078, in 4,262 households. Sweet Home city covers 5.31 square miles of land, which is 1,899 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Sweet Home in?
Linn 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 Sweet Home?
$56,927. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $273,300. Median gross rent is $1,213 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Sweet Home businesses?
17 7(a) approvals totalling $5.2 m, across 7 lenders, median approval $50,000, plus 2 504 approvals worth $2.6 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Sweet Home, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Sweet Home borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Sweet Home. only 2 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.
Are the county figures on this page Sweet Home figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Linn 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 Sweet Home.
Is zoning published for Sweet Home?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.