diff --git a/torchtext/__init__.py b/torchtext/__init__.py
index 81ba54acd2..331a3fd74a 100644
--- a/torchtext/__init__.py
+++ b/torchtext/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
 from torchtext import _extension  # noqa: F401
 
 _TEXT_BUCKET = "https://download.pytorch.org/models/text/"
-_CACHE_DIR = os.path.expanduser("~/.cache/torch/text")
+
+_TORCH_HOME = os.getenv("TORCH_HOME")
+if _TORCH_HOME is None:
+    _TORCH_HOME = "~/.cache/torch" #default
+_CACHE_DIR = os.path.expanduser(os.path.join(_TORCH_HOME, "text"))
 
 from . import data, datasets, experimental, functional, models, nn, transforms, utils, vocab