ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70737

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,202
Property rate /100K (county)
45,958
Population (ZIP)
236
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70737 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70737 sits within Ascension County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Ascension County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 236 violent and 1,202 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 70737 carries a Census-reported population of 45,958, ranking #2 of 7 ZIPs in Ascension County, spread across 53.99 square miles (about 851 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Ascension County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ascension County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70737 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Ascension County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 70737 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
$78,946
Median age
37.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
81%
Occupied homes
18,158

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 70737?

Within the participating-agency records for Ascension County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 33% below and property crime is 30% 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 70737. 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 70737 sits near the middle of Ascension County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 7). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Ascension County UCR book ZIP 70737 inherits

ZIP 70737 itself is about 851 people per Census sq mi across 54 sq mi (45,958 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70737's 45,958 residents are about 36.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (126,500), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Ascension County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 1,819 offenses; mix index 4,397). ZIP 70737 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Ascension County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -10% vs 2023; property counts -20% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Ascension 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 70737

Similar county violent rate (~236/100K)

Similar Census population (~45,958)

County detail: Ascension 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.