Photo: ArkansasNationalist · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Cave Springs earn more than those in 95% of U.S. towns
1.8% of residents are in poverty, where Arkansas as a whole has 16.0%. Cave Springs grades A for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Home is the office for 19% of workers, where Arkansas as a whole has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Cave Springs: the gist
Much of Cave Springs works one town over
68% of working residents work in a town that borders Cave Springs: Bentonville (25%), Rogers (22%) and Springdale (14%). Next door ↓
Most Cave Springs residents work close to home
71% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Home offices are common in Cave Springs
19% of Cave Springs workers work from home, against 9% across Arkansas. Time on the road ↓
Cave Springs is a place people come home to
There are 811 jobs based in Cave Springs, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cave Springs has about 4,400 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Cave Springs
72% of Cave Springs residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 53% of the jobs based in Cave Springs pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 99% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Why Cave Springs gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cave Springs is better than 89% of U.S. towns, #8 of 123 in Arkansas. The poverty rate holds Cave Springs’ grade up; unemployment pulls it down (4.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cave Springs could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Cave Springs
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
From Cave Springs, about 20 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cave Springs workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,136 commuters (the 19% who work from home are left out). Across Arkansas: 87% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How many people are in Cave Springs by day
On a workday 3,083 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 770 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,400 people are in Cave Springs on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than live here.
0.26 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
What work there is in Cave Springs: 811 jobs
811 jobs are based in Cave Springs.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cave Springs, 2014 → 2024: 95 → 811. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cave Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
25% of working residents work in Bentonville
Where Cave Springs clocks in
25% of workers
22% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Most trips from Cave Springs start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cave Springs is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns, #108 of 123 in Arkansas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.0% across Arkansas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,641 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Cave Springs households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cave Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Cave Springs ranks: 445th of 3,201 U.S. towns of 4,700 to 9,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 443 | Paxton MA | 5,046 | $134K | 1.4% | 4.0% | 4% | A |
| 444 | Bow NH | 8,415 | $173K | 2.7% | 3.7% | 9% | A |
| 445 | Cave Springs AR | 6,701 | $146K | 1.8% | 4.8% | 1% | A |
| 446 | Isanti MN | 7,714 | $88K | 5.2% | 1.1% | 8% | A |
| 447 | Union Township IN | 4,875 | $111K | 2.0% | 3.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,153 | Shannon Hills AR | 4,829 | $71K | 3.9% | 4.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,303 | Tontitown AR | 8,046 | $86K | 4.7% | 6.0% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,325 | Gentry AR | 4,899 | $70K | 9.1% | 1.6% | 18% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,201 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Cave Springs, the top three, the last and three more from Arkansas.
Cave Springs and its neighbors: 68% work next door
The biggest share goes to Bentonville (25%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cave Springs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cave Springs | – | A | C− | 20 min | $146,473 |
| Rogers | 22% | B+ | C+ | 18 min | $86,728 |
| Springdale | 14% | B− | B− | 19 min | $69,787 |
| Bentonville | 25% | A | B | 19 min | $112,792 |
| Lowell | 7% | A | C | 20 min | $95,527 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cave Springs’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Cave Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Cave Springs?
$146,473 (±$35,322) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cave Springs?
1.8%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cave Springs?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cave Springs work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bentonville (25%, 5 mi), Rogers (22%, 5 mi), Springdale (14%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Cave Springs walkable?
Cave Springs is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cave Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cave Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cave Springs
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.