ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70466

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)
10,435
Population (ZIP)
492
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70466 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70466 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 70466 carries a Census-reported population of 10,435, ranking #5 of 15 ZIPs in Tangipahoa County, spread across 34.33 square miles (about 304 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 70466 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 70466 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
$61,457
Median age
33.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
68%
Occupied homes
3,290

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 70466?

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 70466. 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 70466 sits near the middle of Tangipahoa County's ZIP population ordering (#5 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 70466 inherits

ZIP 70466 itself is about 304 people per Census sq mi across 34.3 sq mi (10,435 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70466 accounts for roughly 7.8% of the county reporting population (10,435 of 133,157).

Tangipahoa County leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 2,912). ZIP 70466 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 70466

Similar county violent rate (~492/100K)

Similar Census population (~10,435)

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.