ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70710

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,967
Property rate /100K (county)
6,779
Population (ZIP)
261
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70710 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70710 sits within West Baton Rouge County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

West Baton Rouge County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 261 violent and 1,967 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 70710 carries a Census-reported population of 6,779, ranking #2 of 4 ZIPs in West Baton Rouge County, spread across 8.01 square miles (about 846 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of West Baton Rouge County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the West Baton Rouge County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70710 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from West Baton Rouge County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 70710 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
$101,450
Median age
30.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
83%
Occupied homes
2,512

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 70710?

Participating agencies give West Baton Rouge County a split reported profile: violent crime is 26% below the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 15% above it. The categories should be read separately; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor provide a ZIP-specific rate for 70710. 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 70710 sits near the middle of West Baton Rouge County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 4). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

West Baton Rouge County UCR book ZIP 70710 inherits

ZIP 70710 itself is about 846 people per Census sq mi across 8 sq mi (6,779 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70710's 6,779 residents are about 24.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (27,199), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

West Baton Rouge County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 606 offenses; mix index 4,169). ZIP 70710 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

West Baton Rouge County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +4% vs 2023; property counts +14% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

West Baton Rouge 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 70710

Similar county violent rate (~261/100K)

Similar Census population (~6,779)

County detail: West Baton Rouge 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.