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 has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Pitkin, where the median household income is $111,715.00.Pitkin is a military town: the armed forces employs 48.03% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Healthcare and Professional, scientific, and technical services are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 43.18% and 41.67% of the civilian workforce respectively. In addition, Pitkin is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Pitkin has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Pitkin has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pitkin than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pitkin may be for you. One downside of living in Pitkin is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pitkin, the average commute to work is 37.62 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. 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. Being a small town, Pitkin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Pitkin citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 39.68% of adults in Pitkin have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Pitkin in 2022 was $55,834, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $223,336 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 Italian, German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian. The most common language spoken in Pitkin is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
