What is the population of Sweet Home city?

Sweet Home city has 9,977 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #69 of 426 in Oregon.

What is the median household income in Sweet Home city?

Median household income in Sweet Home city is $59,479 a year, 24.3% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sweet Home city?

Median gross rent is $1,135 a month and the median home value is $245,700, so rent absorbs about 22.9% of median household income.

Is Sweet Home city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 4.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sweet Home city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Sweet Home, OR population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Sweet Home, Oregon (Sweet Home, OR — Census place “Sweet Home city”) is 9,977 residents, ranking #69 of 426 places in Oregon. Median household income is $59,479, the median home is worth $245,700 and median gross rent runs $1,135 a month. Looking for the Sweet Home Oregon ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Sweet Home, OR: 97386.

Population: 9,977Sweet Home city residents
Median household income: $59,479Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $245,700Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,135Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 41.6 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 64.6%Owner-occupied households

Sweet Home ZIP codes (Oregon)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Sweet Home.

The Sweet Home OR ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

97386

What the numbers mean in Sweet Home city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Sweet Home city median would spend about 22.9% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 4.1× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 17.4% of residents and 64.6% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Sweet Home city, OR in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Sweet Home city is a mid-size town in Oregon, with 9,977 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #69 of 426 ranked by population — larger than 84% of them. The median age here is 41.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Sweet Home city earn a median of $59,479 a year, 24.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 20% below the $74,006 median for the 228 Oregon cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 17.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sweet Home city is valued at $245,700, 19% below the national figure and 35% below the $377,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,135 a month, 19.3% below the national figure, or roughly $13,620 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 64.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Sweet Home city?: Sweet Home city has 9,977 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #69 of 426 in Oregon.
What is the median household income in Sweet Home city?: Median household income in Sweet Home city is $59,479 a year, 24.3% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sweet Home city?: Median gross rent is $1,135 a month and the median home value is $245,700, so rent absorbs about 22.9% of median household income.
Is Sweet Home city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sweet Home city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Sweet Home city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.