ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70444

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)
9,883
Population (ZIP)
492
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70444 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70444 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 70444 carries a Census-reported population of 9,883, ranking #6 of 15 ZIPs in Tangipahoa County, spread across 244.61 square miles (about 40 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 70444 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 70444 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
$59,973
Median age
42.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
83%
Occupied homes
3,695

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 70444?

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 70444. 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.

70444 is comparatively spread out at about 40 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.

Tangipahoa County UCR book ZIP 70444 inherits

ZIP 70444 itself is about 40 people per Census sq mi across 244.6 sq mi (9,883 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70444 accounts for roughly 7.4% of the county reporting population (9,883 of 133,157).

Tangipahoa County leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 2,912). ZIP 70444 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 70444

Similar county violent rate (~492/100K)

Similar Census population (~9,883)

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.