ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70090

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

946
Property rate /100K (county)
7,513
Population (ZIP)
272
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70090 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70090 sits within St. James 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. James County reported a violent-crime rate of 272 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 946 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 70090 is the largest ZIP in St. James County by population, 7,513 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 79.04 square miles (95/sq mi). For a full breakdown of St. James County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the St. James County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70090 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from St. James County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 70090 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
$58,534
Median age
39.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
2,870

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 70090?

Within the participating-agency records for St. James County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 23% below and property crime is 45% 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 70090. 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.

Within the county, 70090 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 7). Its 7,513 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

St. James County UCR book ZIP 70090 inherits

ZIP 70090 itself is about 95 people per Census sq mi across 79 sq mi (7,513 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70090's 7,513 residents are about 37.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (20,192), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

St. James County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 246 offenses; mix index 4,158). ZIP 70090 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

St. James County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -5% vs 2023; property counts -13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

St. James 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 70090

Similar county violent rate (~272/100K)

Similar Census population (~7,513)

County detail: St. James 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.