It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cave Junction has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cave Junction has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cave Junction than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cave Junction may be for you.
Being a small city, Cave Junction does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Cave Junction with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.57% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cave Junction in 2022 was $20,401, which is low income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,604 for a family of four. Cave Junction also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 42.15% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Cave Junction is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cave Junction home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cave Junction residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Cave Junction also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.41% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cave Junction include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Cave Junction is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
