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. 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. 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 very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Pitkin is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Pitkin has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well. As is often the case in a small town, Pitkin doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.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 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.
