Pitkin, Louisiana.
Typical home $139,186 (+1.9% in a year). Fort Polk South, LA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$110 (+18%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,584 +2%
- $136,602$139,186 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $25,140 -15%
- $164,326$139,186 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Pitkin$731
- Louisiana$1,123
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Pitkin, LA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pitkin, Vernon Parish, Louisiana
Pitkin, in Vernon Parish, had 455 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Vernon Parish was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Vernon Parish work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Pitkin is a very small community in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are priced modestly, and fewer households live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month and cool days and chilly nights, while summers run hot, peaking in August. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year, so the area is wet by national standards.
Work. Residents of Pitkin tend to work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Vernon Parish, some of the largest workplaces are Vernon Parish Schools, Byrd Regional Hospital and Walmart. Jobs in the parish have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment is a touch lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Fort Polk, a fort and one of the best known places in the area, is a longer drive away. So are West Bay Wildlife Management Area and Alexander State Forest, both protected areas suited to a day among the pines and wetlands. Anacoco Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away and is an option for time on the water.
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- 5%below the poverty line
What people in Vernon Parish work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Vernon Parish had 12,525 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elizabeth weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vernon Parish
- Vernon Parish SchoolsSchool district1,122FTE
- Valiant Integrated ServicesNational security711
- Byrd Regional HospitalGeneral hospital360FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters338
- Amentum ServicesAutomotive repair and replacement shops, general319
- PRIDE IndustriesFacilities support services157
- Tanner Heavy EquipmentExcavation contractors148
- Woodlands Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facilities128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,311 people in all across the county; Pitkin has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pitkin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Vernon Parish and the Fort Polk South, LA metro.
Pitkin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pitkin$139,186
- Louisiana$213,867
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Pitkin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pitkin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.