ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 71048
Claiborne County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 219
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 130
- Population (ZIP)
- 191
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 71048 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 71048 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.
With 130 residents, ZIP 71048 is among the smaller ZIPs in Claiborne County (#5 of 5 by population), spread across 22.35 square miles (6/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Claiborne County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Claiborne County crime page linked below.
ZIP 71048 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 71048 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
- $82,975
- Median age
- 65.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 81%
- Occupied homes
- 83
- Median home value
- $56,100
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 6.8%
- Poverty rate
- 1.5%
- Unemployment rate
- 10.0%
ZIP 71048's median home value of $56,100 is lower than 98% of the 356 LA ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable in the state by this measure.
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 71048?
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 71048. 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, 71048 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#5 of 5). 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.
Claiborne County UCR book ZIP 71048 inherits
ZIP 71048 itself is about 6 people per Census sq mi across 22.4 sq mi (130 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 71048 is about 0.9% of the county reporting population (130 of 14,170), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Claiborne County leans on aggravated assault at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,847). ZIP 71048 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.
Read with ZIP 71048
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.