ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70402

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,053
Property rate /100K (county)
1,943
Population (ZIP)
492
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70402 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70402 sits within Tangipahoa County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Tangipahoa County's reported crime sits somewhat above the national average: 492 violent and 1,053 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 70402 carries a Census-reported population of 1,943, ranking #11 of 15 ZIPs in Tangipahoa County, spread across 0.12 square miles (about 16,192 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Tangipahoa County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Tangipahoa County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70402 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Tangipahoa County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 70402 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
19.6 years
Occupied homes
0

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 70402?

Participating agencies give Tangipahoa County a split reported profile: violent crime is 40% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 38% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 70402. 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.

70402 is a densely settled part of the county at about 16,192 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.

Tangipahoa County UCR book ZIP 70402 inherits

ZIP 70402 itself is about 16,192 people per Census sq mi across 0.1 sq mi (1,943 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70402 is about 1.5% of the county reporting population (1,943 of 133,157), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Tangipahoa County leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 2,912). ZIP 70402 has no separate FBI offense book.

Tangipahoa County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +29% vs 2023; property counts -5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Tangipahoa 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 70402

Similar county violent rate (~492/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,943)

County detail: Tangipahoa 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.