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.
Being a small city, Cave Junction does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Cave Junction, just 10.57% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
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.
