Work & commute · Cave Spring

Work & commute in Cave Spring, GA

Most working residents leave Cave Spring for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Rome (27%), Lindale (5%) and Cedartown (4%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17 of 503 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 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 486 Cave Spring residents head out of town to work, 17 work right here, and 415 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cave Spring.

486live here, work elsewhere

17live and work here

415work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cave Spring goes to work

Rome14 mi away

27%138

Lindale10.6 mi away

5%25

Cedartown7.9 mi away

4%22

Cave Spring (in town)right here

3%17

Atlanta57.7 mi away

3%15

Cartersville31 mi away

2%10

Calhoun35.6 mi away

2%9

Marietta46.9 mi away

2%9

Rockmart18.2 mi away

1%7

Canton49.5 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%246

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

How far

How far Cave Spring commutes

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

16%

41%

18%

25%

16%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cave Spring is balanced between jobs and homes

0.86jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cave Spring are

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

Jobs based in Cave Spring

432 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)56%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)33%

$1,250 a month or less30%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month26%

Jobs Cave Spring residents hold

503 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+69%

Jobs based in Cave Spring, 2013 → 2023: 256 → 432. 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.