ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 70778

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)
3,270
Population (ZIP)
236
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 70778 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 70778 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.

With 3,270 residents, ZIP 70778 is among the smaller ZIPs in Ascension County (#6 of 7 by population), spread across 45.87 square miles (71/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Ascension County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ascension County crime page linked below.

ZIP 70778 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 70778 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
$104,988
Median age
37.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
90%
Occupied homes
1,157

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 70778?

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 70778. 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, 70778 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#6 of 7). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Ascension County UCR book ZIP 70778 inherits

ZIP 70778 itself is about 71 people per Census sq mi across 45.9 sq mi (3,270 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 70778 accounts for roughly 2.6% of the county reporting population (3,270 of 126,500).

Ascension County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 1,819 offenses; mix index 4,397). ZIP 70778 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 70778

Similar county violent rate (~236/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,270)

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.