ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70084

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,255
Property rate /100K (county)
5,832
Population (ZIP)
266
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70084 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70084 sits within St. John the Baptist 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.

St. John the Baptist County reported a violent-crime rate of 266 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,255 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 70084 carries a Census-reported population of 5,832, ranking #2 of 5 ZIPs in St. John the Baptist County, spread across 18.11 square miles (about 322 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of St. John the Baptist County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the St. John the Baptist County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70084 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from St. John the Baptist County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 70084 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
$56,250
Median age
41.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
2,347

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 70084?

Within the participating-agency records for St. John the Baptist County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 24% below and property crime is 27% 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 70084. 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 70084 sits near the middle of St. John the Baptist County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 5). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

St. John the Baptist County UCR book ZIP 70084 inherits

ZIP 70084 itself is about 322 people per Census sq mi across 18.1 sq mi (5,832 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70084 accounts for roughly 13.7% of the county reporting population (5,832 of 42,477).

St. John the Baptist County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 646 offenses; mix index 4,452). ZIP 70084 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

St. John the Baptist County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +9% vs 2023; property counts +2% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

St. John the Baptist 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 70084

Similar county violent rate (~266/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,832)

County detail: St. John the Baptist 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.