ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 70465
Tangipahoa County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 1,053
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 638
- Population (ZIP)
- 492
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 70465 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 70465 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 70465 carries a Census-reported population of 638, ranking #12 of 15 ZIPs in Tangipahoa County, spread across 1 square miles (about 638 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 70465 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 70465 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
- $18,269
- Median age
- 23.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 62%
- Occupied homes
- 186
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 4.7%
- Poverty rate
- 63.8%
- Unemployment rate
- 27.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 70465?
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 70465. 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 70465 sits near the middle of Tangipahoa County's ZIP population ordering (#12 of 15). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Tangipahoa County UCR book ZIP 70465 inherits
ZIP 70465 itself is about 638 people per Census sq mi across 1 sq mi (638 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 70465 is about 0.5% of the county reporting population (638 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 70465 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.
Read with ZIP 70465
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.