ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70560

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

478
Property rate /100K (county)
37,763
Population (ZIP)
273
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70560 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70560 sits within Iberia County, LA. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Iberia County reported a violent-crime rate of 273 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 478 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 70560 carries a Census-reported population of 37,763, ranking #1 of 6 ZIPs in Iberia County, spread across 176.08 square miles (about 214 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Iberia County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Iberia County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70560 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Iberia County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 70560 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
$45,313
Median age
35.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
58%
Occupied homes
14,159

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 70560?

Within the participating-agency records for Iberia County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 22% below and property crime is 72% 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 70560. 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.

70560 is comparatively spread out at about 214 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.

Iberia County UCR book ZIP 70560 inherits

ZIP 70560 itself is about 214 people per Census sq mi across 176.1 sq mi (37,763 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70560's 37,763 residents are about 54% of the 2024 county reporting population (69,929), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Iberia County leans on larceny-theft at 32% of reported offenses (mix index 2,623). ZIP 70560 has no separate FBI offense book.

Iberia 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 70560

Similar county violent rate (~273/100K)

Similar Census population (~37,763)

County detail: Iberia 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.