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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, 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%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Cave Spring is worth considering.

As is often the case in a small city, Cave Spring doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Cave Spring citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.43% of adults 25 and older in Cave Spring have a college degree.

The per capita income in Cave Spring in 2018 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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

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.

Diversity

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.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% 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 (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.

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 (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.


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