Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Pitkin is worth considering.
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.
Being a small town, Pitkin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
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.
