ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70453

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,365
Property rate /100K (county)
1,235
Population (ZIP)
577
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70453 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70453 sits within St. Helena County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

St. Helena County's reported crime sits somewhat above the national average: 577 violent and 1,365 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

With 1,235 residents, ZIP 70453 is among the smaller ZIPs in St. Helena County (#2 of 2 by population), spread across 37.02 square miles (33/sq mi). For a full breakdown of St. Helena County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the St. Helena County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70453 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from St. Helena County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 70453 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
$68,348
Median age
48.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
92%
Occupied homes
481

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 70453?

Participating agencies give St. Helena County a split reported profile: violent crime is 64% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 20% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 70453. 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, 70453 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#2 of 2). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

St. Helena County UCR book ZIP 70453 inherits

ZIP 70453 itself is about 33 people per Census sq mi across 37 sq mi (1,235 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70453 accounts for roughly 11.3% of the county reporting population (1,235 of 10,920).

St. Helena County leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses (mix index 2,652). ZIP 70453 has no separate FBI offense book.

St. Helena County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -38% vs 2023; property counts -20% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

St. Helena 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 70453

Similar county violent rate (~577/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,235)

County detail: St. Helena 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.