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.

The armed forces are a huge part of the life in Pitkin, employing 60.00% of the workforce. While it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy, where the Manufacturing and Real estate industries employ 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.

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 37.13 minutes, which is quite a bit 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.

Being a small town, Pitkin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The population of Pitkin has a very low overall level of education: only 7.29% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

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.