ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 70518
Lafayette County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 335
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 15,991
- Population (ZIP)
- 91
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 70518 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 70518 sits within Lafayette County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 91 violent incidents and 335 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 70518 carries a Census-reported population of 15,991, ranking #8 of 11 ZIPs in Lafayette County, spread across 41.72 square miles (about 383 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Lafayette County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lafayette County crime page linked below.
ZIP 70518 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Lafayette County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 70518 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
- $88,824
- Median age
- 34.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 80%
- Occupied homes
- 5,817
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 70518?
Within the participating-agency records for Lafayette County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 74% below and property crime is 80% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 70518. 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 70518 sits near the middle of Lafayette County's ZIP population ordering (#8 of 11). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Lafayette County UCR book ZIP 70518 inherits
ZIP 70518 itself is about 383 people per Census sq mi across 41.7 sq mi (15,991 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 70518 accounts for roughly 6.6% of the county reporting population (15,991 of 241,753).
Lafayette County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,497). ZIP 70518 has no separate FBI offense book.
Lafayette County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -17% vs 2023; property counts -16% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Lafayette 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 70518
Similar county violent rate (~91/100K)
- ZIP 48827, MI · 90.7/100K · Eaton County
- ZIP 78121, TX · 90.4/100K · Wilson County
- ZIP 54143, WI · 90.8/100K · Marinette County
- ZIP 37807, TN · 90.9/100K · Union County
Similar Census population (~15,991)
- ZIP 23226, VA · 15,997 pop · Δ6
- ZIP 53714, WI · 15,983 pop · Δ8
- ZIP 16504, PA · 16,003 pop · Δ12
- ZIP 93241, CA · 15,978 pop · Δ13
County detail: Lafayette 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.