Pitkin is a tiny town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 455 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pitkin is the 292nd largest community in Louisiana.

Pitkin is a military town: the armed forces employs 60.00% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Manufacturing and Real estate are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 35.00% and 21.25% of the civilian workforce respectively.

The town 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, Pitkin has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pitkin a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Pitkin, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.13 minutes every day commuting to work.

Pitkin is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Pitkin isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Pitkin is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

In Pitkin, just 7.29% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Pitkin in 2018 was $44,481, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $177,924 for a family of four. However, Pitkin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pitkin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pitkin residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Pitkin include Irish, Italian, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Pitkin is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.