ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 70082
Plaquemines County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 481
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 429
- Population (ZIP)
- 340
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 70082 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 70082 sits within Plaquemines County, LA. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.
Plaquemines County reported a violent-crime rate of 340 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 481 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 70082 carries a Census-reported population of 429, ranking #5 of 8 ZIPs in Plaquemines County, spread across 11.38 square miles (about 38 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Plaquemines County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Plaquemines County crime page linked below.
ZIP 70082 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Plaquemines County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 70082 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 age
- 54.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 58%
- Occupied homes
- 112
- Median home value
- $32,900
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 12.5%
- Poverty rate
- 84.7%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
ZIP 70082's median home value of $32,900 is lower than 99% of the 356 LA ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 70082?
Within the participating-agency records for Plaquemines County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 3% below and property crime is 72% 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 70082. 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.
70082 is comparatively spread out at about 38 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.
Plaquemines County UCR book ZIP 70082 inherits
ZIP 70082 itself is about 38 people per Census sq mi across 11.4 sq mi (429 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 70082 is about 1.8% of the county reporting population (429 of 23,515), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Plaquemines County leans on aggravated assault at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 3,344). ZIP 70082 has no separate FBI offense book.
Plaquemines County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -17% vs 2023; property counts +13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Plaquemines 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.
Read with ZIP 70082
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.