Work & commute · Cave

Work & commute in Cave, AR

Most working residents leave Cave for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Batesville (32%), Little Rock (6%) and Searcy (2%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

118 of 702 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 584 Cave residents head out of town to work, 118 work right here, and 680 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cave.

584live here, work elsewhere

118live and work here

680work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cave goes to work

Batesville13.1 mi away

32%225

Cave City (in town)right here

17%118

Little Rock96.1 mi away

6%39

Searcy50 mi away

2%17

Ash Flat20.2 mi away

2%14

Southside16.4 mi away

2%14

Jonesboro49.4 mi away

2%12

Conway79.5 mi away

2%11

Evening Shade9.4 mi away

1%10

Melbourne20.3 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%233

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Cave commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

20%

45%

26%

20%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cave is balanced between jobs and homes

1.14jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cave are

798 jobs are based in Cave. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cave’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cave

798 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Cave residents hold

702 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month44%

+35%

Jobs based in Cave, 2013 → 2023: 591 → 798. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.