ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70605

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,212
Property rate /100K (county)
40,870
Population (ZIP)
289
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70605 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70605 sits within Calcasieu 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.

Calcasieu County reported a violent-crime rate of 289 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,212 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 70605 is the largest ZIP in Calcasieu County by population, 40,870 residents (#1 of 15 county ZIPs), across 42.96 square miles (951/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Calcasieu County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Calcasieu County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70605 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Calcasieu County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 70605 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
$86,068
Median age
34.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
15,650

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 70605?

Within the participating-agency records for Calcasieu County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 18% below and property crime is 29% 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 70605. 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.

Within the county, 70605 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 15). Its 40,870 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Calcasieu County UCR book ZIP 70605 inherits

ZIP 70605 itself is about 951 people per Census sq mi across 43 sq mi (40,870 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70605's 40,870 residents are about 18.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (216,785), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Calcasieu County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 3,254 offenses; mix index 4,529). ZIP 70605 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Calcasieu County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -22% vs 2023; property counts -19% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Calcasieu 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 70605

Similar county violent rate (~289/100K)

Similar Census population (~40,870)

County detail: Calcasieu 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.