ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 71046
De Soto County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 567
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 907
- Population (ZIP)
- 265
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 71046 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 71046 sits within De Soto County, LA. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.
De Soto County reported a violent-crime rate of 265 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 567 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
With 907 residents, ZIP 71046 is among the smaller ZIPs in De Soto County (#7 of 8 by population), spread across 86.35 square miles (11/sq mi). For a full breakdown of De Soto County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the De Soto County crime page linked below.
ZIP 71046 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from De Soto County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 71046 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
- $62,625
- Median age
- 40.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 88%
- Occupied homes
- 327
- Median home value
- $97,300
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 20.2%
- Poverty rate
- 5.0%
- Unemployment rate
- 6.1%
ZIP 71046's median home value of $97,300 sits higher than 21% of the 356 LA ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 71046?
Within the participating-agency records for De Soto County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 25% below and property crime is 67% 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 71046. 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, 71046 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#7 of 8). 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.
De Soto County UCR book ZIP 71046 inherits
ZIP 71046 itself is about 11 people per Census sq mi across 86.4 sq mi (907 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 71046 accounts for roughly 3.4% of the county reporting population (907 of 26,812).
De Soto County leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses (mix index 2,799). ZIP 71046 has no separate FBI offense book.
De Soto County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +73% vs 2023; property counts -27% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
De Soto 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.
Read with ZIP 71046
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.