Sweet Home, Oregon

Sweet Home population, 2020 to 2024

Sweet Home added 411 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +54. Among 80 Oregon places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 18th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oregon has 14,915 people, so Sweet Home is 69% of it.

Sweet Home covers 5.31 square miles of land and 0.49 of water, for 1,933 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Sweet Home is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sweet Home is in

All of Sweet Home's residents live in Linn County, which had 132,474 residents in 2024. Sweet Home holds 7.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sweet Home

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sweet Home by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97386. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Sweet Home is

The Census internal point of Sweet Home is at 44.404000, -122.701500. Salem, the capital, is 40.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lebanon, OR (19,950 people), 13.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Eugene, OR, 31.7 miles away.

Daylight in Sweet Home

At 44.40° N, Sweet Home gets about 15 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sweet Home

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Lebanon, 13.4 miles away, with 19,950 people.