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, Cave Spring isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cave Spring are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cave Spring is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cave Spring who work in sales jobs (13.94%), maintenance occupations (13.94%), and teaching (10.19%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cave Spring has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cave Spring a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Cave Spring doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Cave Spring is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.43% of adults 25 and older in Cave Spring have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cave Spring in 2022 was $22,613, 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 $90,452 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, German, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Cave Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Italian.
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, 23.2% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 3.1% 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 middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.0% 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, 35.1% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.2%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Cave Spring, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (23.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (41.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.7%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.