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.60.00% of the workforce is employed in the armed forces, making the military a huge focus of life in Pitkin. Even though it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy. The Manufacturing and Real estate industries respectively employ 35.00% and 21.25% of the civilian workforce. 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. In Pitkin, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.13 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Pitkin is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Pitkin, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities. As is often the case in a small town, Pitkin doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The citizens of Pitkin have a very low rate of college education: just 7.29% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Pitkin in 2022 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.
