diff --git a/torchtext/__init__.py b/torchtext/__init__.py
index 015b51501f..28f8f21c23 100644
--- a/torchtext/__init__.py
+++ b/torchtext/__init__.py
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 import os
 
+from torch.hub import _get_torch_home
+
 # the following import has to happen first in order to load the torchtext C++ library
 from torchtext import _extension  # noqa: F401
 
 _TEXT_BUCKET = "https://download.pytorch.org/models/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"))
+_CACHE_DIR = os.path.expanduser(os.path.join(_get_torch_home(), "text"))
 
 from . import data, datasets, experimental, functional, models, nn, transforms, utils, vocab