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. Much of the housing stock in La Pine was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local La Pine economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in La Pine, where the median household income is $54,946.00.

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.

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) La Pine 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. La Pine has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in La Pine than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, La Pine may be for you.

In La Pine, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.68 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

The rate of college-level education in La Pine is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.23% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an 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’s 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.