ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 70585
Evangeline County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 272
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 252
- Population (ZIP)
- 118
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 70585 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 70585 sits within Evangeline 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: 118 violent incidents and 272 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 70585 carries a Census-reported population of 252, ranking #5 of 7 ZIPs in Evangeline County, spread across 0.6 square miles (about 420 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Evangeline County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Evangeline County crime page linked below.
ZIP 70585 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Evangeline County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 70585 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
- $30,625
- Median age
- 35.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 75%
- Occupied homes
- 102
- Median home value
- $87,500
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 5.0%
- Poverty rate
- 13.1%
- Unemployment rate
- 5.3%
ZIP 70585's median home value of $87,500 sits higher than 13% of the 356 LA ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
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 70585?
Within the participating-agency records for Evangeline County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 66% below and property crime is 84% 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 70585. 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 70585 sits near the middle of Evangeline County's ZIP population ordering (#5 of 7). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Evangeline County UCR book ZIP 70585 inherits
ZIP 70585 itself is about 420 people per Census sq mi across 0.6 sq mi (252 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 70585 is about 0.8% of the county reporting population (252 of 32,350), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Evangeline County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,897). ZIP 70585 has no separate FBI offense book.
Evangeline County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +31% vs 2023; property counts -61% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Evangeline 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 70585
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.