ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70001

Jefferson County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,620
Property rate /100K (county)
40,071
Population (ZIP)
229
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70001 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70001 sits within Jefferson County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Jefferson County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 229 violent and 1,620 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 70001 carries a Census-reported population of 40,071, ranking #6 of 17 ZIPs in Jefferson County, spread across 6.48 square miles (about 6,184 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Jefferson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Jefferson County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70001 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Jefferson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 70001 Census context

These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.

Median household income
$68,702
Median age
40.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
51%
Occupied homes
17,647

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 70001?

Within the participating-agency records for Jefferson County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 35% below and property crime is 5% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 70001. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

70001 is a densely settled part of the county at about 6,184 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.

Jefferson County UCR book ZIP 70001 inherits

ZIP 70001 itself is about 6,184 people per Census sq mi across 6.5 sq mi (40,071 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70001 accounts for roughly 9.1% of the county reporting population (40,071 of 440,781).

Jefferson County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 8,146 offenses; mix index 4,481). ZIP 70001 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Jefferson County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -12% vs 2023; property counts -9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Jefferson County offense mix (2024)

Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 70001

Similar county violent rate (~229/100K)

Similar Census population (~40,071)

County detail: Jefferson County · State atlas: Louisiana

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).

Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.