ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 71024
Webster County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 441
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 1,152
- Population (ZIP)
- 160
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 71024 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 71024 sits within Webster 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: 160 violent incidents and 441 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
With 1,152 residents, ZIP 71024 is among the smaller ZIPs in Webster County (#9 of 10 by population), spread across 64.44 square miles (18/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Webster County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Webster County crime page linked below.
ZIP 71024 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Webster County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 71024 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
- $46,000
- Median age
- 37.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 94%
- Occupied homes
- 448
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 71024?
Within the participating-agency records for Webster County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 55% below and property crime is 74% 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 71024. 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, 71024 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#9 of 10). 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.
Webster County UCR book ZIP 71024 inherits
ZIP 71024 itself is about 18 people per Census sq mi across 64.4 sq mi (1,152 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 71024 accounts for roughly 3.1% of the county reporting population (1,152 of 36,967).
Webster County leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,335). ZIP 71024 has no separate FBI offense book.
Webster County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -5% vs 2023; property counts -24% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Webster 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 71024
Similar county violent rate (~160/100K)
- ZIP 87036, NM · 159.5/100K · Torrance County
- ZIP 76693, TX · 159.5/100K · Freestone County
- ZIP 32461, FL · 159.4/100K · Walton County
- ZIP 38838, MS · 159.2/100K · Tishomingo County
Similar Census population (~1,152)
- ZIP 12504, NY · 1,152 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 54003, WI · 1,152 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 97137, OR · 1,152 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 12751, NY · 1,151 pop · Δ1
County detail: Webster 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.