La Pine is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 2,540 people and three associated neighborhoods, La Pine is the 131st largest community in Oregon. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in La Pine, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to La Pine, and putting down their money on brand new construction. La Pine鈥檚 real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. La Pine does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $54,946.00.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, La Pine is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.75% of the La Pine workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, La Pine is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in La Pine who work in sales jobs (12.26%), office and administrative support (8.53%), and management occupations (8.41%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.34% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, La Pine has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes La Pine a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in La Pine is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In La Pine, the average commute to work is 30.68 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. The percentage of people in La Pine with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.23% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in La Pine in 2022 was $26,582, which is low income relative to Oregon, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,328 for a family of four. However, La Pine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. La Pine is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Pine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Pine residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. La Pine also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.38% of the city鈥檚 residents. Important ancestries of people in La Pine include Irish, German, English, Portuguese, and Croatian. The most common language spoken in La Pine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.