ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70047

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,005
Property rate /100K (county)
13,467
Population (ZIP)
234
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70047 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70047 sits within St. Charles County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

St. Charles County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 234 violent and 1,005 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 70047 carries a Census-reported population of 13,467, ranking #2 of 9 ZIPs in St. Charles County, spread across 12.17 square miles (about 1,107 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of St. Charles County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the St. Charles County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70047 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from St. Charles County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 70047 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
$98,846
Median age
39.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
80%
Occupied homes
4,828

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 70047?

Within the participating-agency records for St. Charles County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 34% below and property crime is 41% 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 70047. 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.

ZIP 70047 sits near the middle of St. Charles County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 9). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

St. Charles County UCR book ZIP 70047 inherits

ZIP 70047 itself is about 1,107 people per Census sq mi across 12.2 sq mi (13,467 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70047's 13,467 residents are about 25.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (52,549), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

St. Charles County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 651 offenses; mix index 4,088). ZIP 70047 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

St. Charles County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +16% vs 2023; property counts -3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

St. Charles 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 70047

Similar county violent rate (~234/100K)

Similar Census population (~13,467)

County detail: St. Charles 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.