ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71040

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

219
Violent rate /100K (county)
7,996
Population (ZIP)
191
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71040 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71040 sits within Claiborne County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Claiborne County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 219 violent and 191 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 71040 carries a Census-reported population of 7,996, ranking #1 of 5 ZIPs in Claiborne County, spread across 293.15 square miles (about 27 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Claiborne County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Claiborne County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71040 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Claiborne County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71040 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
$30,813
Median age
38.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
68%
Occupied homes
2,392

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 71040?

Within the participating-agency records for Claiborne County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 38% below and property crime is 89% 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 71040. 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.

71040 is comparatively spread out at about 27 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Claiborne County UCR book ZIP 71040 inherits

ZIP 71040 itself is about 27 people per Census sq mi across 293.2 sq mi (7,996 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71040's 7,996 residents are about 56.4% of the 2024 county reporting population (14,170), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Claiborne County leans on aggravated assault at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,847). ZIP 71040 has no separate FBI offense book.

Claiborne County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +48% vs 2023; property counts -18% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Claiborne 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 71040

Similar county violent rate (~219/100K)

Similar Census population (~7,996)

County detail: Claiborne 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.