Another notable thing is that Pinetop-Lakeside is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
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!) Pinetop-Lakeside 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. Pinetop-Lakeside has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pinetop-Lakeside than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pinetop-Lakeside may be for you.
The education level of Pinetop-Lakeside citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.34% of adults in Pinetop-Lakeside have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pinetop-Lakeside in 2022 was $33,617, which is upper middle income relative to Arizona, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,468 for a family of four. However, Pinetop-Lakeside contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pinetop-Lakeside is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pinetop-Lakeside home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pinetop-Lakeside residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Pinetop-Lakeside also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.43% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pinetop-Lakeside include German, English, Irish, Greek, and Bulgarian.
The most common language spoken in Pinetop-Lakeside is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
