Cave Spring, Georgia.
Typical home $250,740 (+4.8% in a year). Rome, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$729 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,372 +5%
- $239,368$250,740 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,122 +26%
- $199,618$250,740 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Cave Spring$1,316
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Cave Spring, GA rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cave Spring, Floyd County, Georgia
Cave Spring is a city of 1,174 people in Floyd County. Unemployment in Floyd County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Floyd County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Cave Spring is a small city in Floyd County, Georgia, with a population that is small even by the standards of Georgia towns. Incomes in the county run at a middling level, and a modest share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are typically valued well above what the lowest-priced parts of the country ask, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month and highs a little above freezing, while summers are hot, with July afternoons well into the hot end of the scale. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Floyd County, some of the largest workplaces are Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center, Floyd County Schools and Rome City Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up. The typical commute is a long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Close by, Big Spring Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Springdale Lake, a reservoir, is also a short drive. The King Archaeological Site is another short drive from town. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Little River Canyon National Preserve, a protected area with canyon scenery.
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- 428households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Floyd County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Floyd County had 44,187 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cedartown weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Floyd County
- Atrium Health Floyd Medical CenterGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,890
- Adventhealth RedmondGeneral hospital1,348FTE
- Floyd County SchoolsSchool district1,290FTE
- Rome City SchoolsSchool district912FTE
- Winshape FoundationIndividual and family social services, multi-purpose690
- Lowe's Companies, INCWarehouse679
- F&P Georgia MFGAutomotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts manufacturing653
- Georgia Northwestern Technical CollegeTwo-year college609
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 81 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,865 people in all across the county; Cave Spring has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cave Spring’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Floyd County and the Rome, GA metro.
Cave Spring home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cave Spring$250,740
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cave Spring15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cave Spring address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cave Spring — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.