Swetes is located in Saint Paul Parish on the island of Antigua, in Antigua and Barbuda.

With lowlands and valleys, the terrain of the Swete's region is nearly identical to that of Liberta, with the exception that there are less sharp hills. Since it is the area's flattest lowland, as opposed to Buckley's to the north and Folly Hill and John Hughes to the west, the majority of slaves who were freed after slavery lived in Swete. The owner followed the custom of selling unused estate properties to freed slaves.

This community was given its name in honor of Main Swete, who built a plantation there in the early 1700s. He had traveled from South Devon's Modbury. He died in 1735 after serving in the House of Assembly from 1715 to 1715. Henry Gale acquired ownership of the 180-acre estate soon after freedom. Since the estate owners did not want to construct laborers' cottages after the great earthquake of 1843, Sweete's hamlet emerged about the time when its owner marked off a part of land for sale to laborers on the sugar estates in the middle of the 1840s.

The third son of the Rev. John Swete, Maine Swete, relocated to London around 1688 and then to a property on the island of Antigua. On July 15, 1701, a survey was conducted of Captain Main Swete's 337 acre plantation at Falmouth, Antigua. In 1704 and 1715, he served as a member of the Assembly. (1) He wed Grace Waldron. They didn't have any kids. In 1728, he went back to Devon and wed Esther Prickman. When his brother Adrian died without issue in 1733, he received Traine Manor as his inheritance. In trust for their three-year-old son Adrian John Swete, he gave Traine and other possessions to his wife Esther when he died in 1735.

The fourth Marquis of Vallado was Theodore Walrond (born 1701). Humphrey Walrond received the Spanish title of Marquis de Vallado from King Philip IV of Spain on August 5, 1653. He served as Barbados' governor as well. Main Swete Walrond (b.1725), the fifth Marquis, Joseph Lyons Waldron (1725–1815), the sixth Marquis, and Lyons Walrond (1800–1819), the seventh Marquis, all inherited the title from their ancestors.

After 1726, Theodore Walrond married Mary Keynell, the governor's daughter.

Owners of the original property were Captain Main Swete and his wife Esther Swete, who held a 337-acre sugar plantation. The estate, and consequently the community, are located in Liberta's northwest region. Swetes came from a long line of British families with roots in Antigua. During its peak, the estate housed hundreds of slaves. On July 8, 1735, Main Swete was buried in England and left his inheritance to his widow Esther, who was living there at the time of his passing. Daniel Mathew later rented out the Swete Estate.

Swetes has five enumeration districts, As of 2011, it has a population of 1,720.

• 70300 Swetes-NorthWest
• 70400 Swetes-North
• 70500 Swetes-Central
• 70600 Swetes-SouthWest
• 70700 Swetes-East

Q48 Ethnic	Counts	%
African descendent	1,641	95.43%
Caucasian/White	12	0.68%
East Indian/India	5	0.31%
Mixed (Black/White)	6	0.37%
Mixed (Other)	23	1.36%
Hispanic	5	0.31%
Other	13	0.74%
Don't know/Not stated	14	0.80%
Total	1,720	100.00%

Q49 Religion	Counts	%
Adventist	151	8.86%
Anglican	95	5.62%
Baptist	56	3.31%
Church of God	142	8.36%
Evangelical	72	4.24%
Jehovah Witness	24	1.44%
Methodist	51	3.00%
Moravian	353	20.79%
Nazarene	31	1.81%
None/no religion	77	4.56%
Pentecostal	111	6.55%
Rastafarian	19	1.12%
Roman Catholic	89	5.24%
Weslyan Holiness	323	18.98%
Other	36	2.12%
Don't know/Not stated	68	4.00%
Total	1,700	100.00%
NotApp :	20

Q55 Internet Use	Counts	%
Yes	768	44.66%
No	915	53.18%
Don't know/Not stated	37	2.16%
Total	1,720	100.00%

Q58. Country of birth	Counts	%
Africa	1	0.06%
Other Latin or North American countries	2	0.12%
Antigua and Barbuda	1,289	74.95%
Other Caribbean countries	20	1.17%
Canada	2	0.12%
Dominica	53	3.08%
Dominican Republic	3	0.19%
Guyana	138	8.02%
Jamaica	105	6.11%
Monsterrat	6	0.37%
St. Kitts and Nevis	3	0.19%
St. Lucia	2	0.12%
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	13	0.74%
Trinidad and Tobago	8	0.49%
United Kingdom	11	0.62%
USA	33	1.91%
USVI United States Virgin Islands	15	0.86%
Not Stated	15	0.86%
Total	1,720	100.00%

Q71 Country of Citizenship 1	Counts	%
Antigua and Barbuda	1,471	85.56%
Other Caribbean countries	18	1.05%
Canada	1	0.06%
Dominica	34	1.97%
Dominican Republic	2	0.12%
Guyana	57	3.33%
Jamaica	81	4.69%
Monsterrat	2	0.12%
St. Lucia	1	0.06%
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	7	0.43%
Trinidad and Tobago	2	0.12%
United Kingdom	4	0.25%
USA	22	1.30%
Other countries	3	0.19%
Not Stated	13	0.74%
Total	1,720	100.00%

Q71 Country of Citizenship 2 (Country of Second Citizenship)	Counts	%
Other Caribbean countries	25	12.50%
Canada	5	2.60%
Dominica	23	11.46%
Guyana	46	22.40%
Jamaica	31	15.10%
Monsterrat	5	2.60%
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	5	2.60%
Trinidad and Tobago	6	3.13%
United Kingdom	22	10.94%
USA	27	13.02%
Other countries	7	3.65%
Total	204	100.00%
NotApp :	1,516

Q117 MoneyOverseas (Money from friends and relatives overseas)	Counts	%
Under 100 EC$	1,234	96.43%
100 to 499 EC$	17	1.33%
500 to 999 EC$	8	0.66%
1,000 to 1,999 EC$	8	0.66%
2,000 to 4,999 EC$	8	0.66%
5,000 to 99,999 EC$	3	0.25%
Total	1,279	100.00%
NotApp :	440

Employment status	Counts	%
Employed	781	60.98%
Unemployed	85	6.63%
Inactive	400	31.23%
Not stated	15	1.16%
Total	1,281	100.00%
NotApp :	439

Q91 Business Earning (Earnings a business made)	Counts	%
Under 1,000 $EC per month	19	25.35%
1,000 to 1,999 $EC per month	20	26.76%
2,000 to 2,999 $EC per month	10	12.68%
3,000 to 4,999 $EC per month	20	26.76%
5,000 $EC and over per month	6	8.45%
Total	75	100.00%
NotApp :	1,607
Missing :	37

Swetes is the birthplace of George Alexander McGuire, Patriarch of the African Orthodox Church. It is also the birthplace of Antiguan and West Indian cricketers Ridley Jacobs and Sir Curtly Ambrose.