Cave Spring is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,204 people and just one neighborhood, Cave Spring is the 308th largest community in Georgia.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cave Spring is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cave Spring is a city of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cave Spring who work in management occupations (19.32%), sales jobs (10.16%), and maintenance occupations (9.76%).
In Cave Spring, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.74 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Cave Spring does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Cave Spring overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Cave Spring, 21.43% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Cave Spring in 2022 was $23,972, which is lower middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,888 for a family of four. However, Cave Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cave Spring is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cave Spring home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cave Spring residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cave Spring include English, Irish, Polish, German, and European.
The most common language spoken in Cave Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and French.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cave Spring, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 43 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.4% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.2% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 3.0% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cave Spring are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Cave Spring, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (30.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report German roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.6%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.