Cave Junction is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 2,092 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cave Junction is the 145th largest community in Oregon.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cave Junction is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cave Junction is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cave Junction who work in sales jobs (21.03%), office and administrative support (19.49%), and maintenance occupations (8.03%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.22% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cave Junction has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cave Junction a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Cave Junction is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cave Junction, the average commute to work is 30.49 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small city, Cave Junction does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Cave Junction are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.17% of adults in Cave Junction have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Cave Junction in 2022 was $26,302, which is low income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,208 for a family of four. However, Cave Junction contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cave Junction is a very 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 Asian. 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 13.13% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cave Junction include Irish, English, German, French, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Cave Junction is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Japanese.
