In addition, Pitkin is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates", which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.
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, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.62 minutes every day commuting to work.
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 is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 39.68% of adults in Pitkin have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pitkin in 2022 was $55,834, which is wealthy relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $223,336 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 Italian, German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Pitkin is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
