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Cave Spring, GA

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Overview


Cave Spring is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 1,196 people and just one neighborhood, Cave Spring is the 308th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

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 professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cave Spring who work in management occupations (17.24%), sales jobs (14.06%), and teaching (13.53%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Cave Spring is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Cave Spring is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.00% of adults 25 and older in Cave Spring have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cave Spring in 2018 was $20,886, 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 $83,544 for a family of four. However, Cave Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cave Spring is a very 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 French.

The most common language spoken in Cave Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 44.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 (14.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (45.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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