ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71070

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

989
Property rate /100K (county)
1,299
Population (ZIP)
192
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71070 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71070 sits within Natchitoches County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Natchitoches County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 192 violent and 989 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 71070 carries a Census-reported population of 1,299, ranking #5 of 16 ZIPs in Natchitoches County, spread across 199.33 square miles (about 7 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Natchitoches County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Natchitoches County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71070 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Natchitoches County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71070 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
$52,480
Median age
53.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
90%
Occupied homes
483

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 71070?

Within the participating-agency records for Natchitoches County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 45% below and property crime is 42% 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 71070. 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.

71070 is comparatively spread out at about 7 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.

Natchitoches County UCR book ZIP 71070 inherits

ZIP 71070 itself is about 7 people per Census sq mi across 199.3 sq mi (1,299 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71070 accounts for roughly 3.5% of the county reporting population (1,299 of 37,515).

Natchitoches County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,141). ZIP 71070 has no separate FBI offense book.

Natchitoches County 2024 vs 2020: violent counts +22% vs 2020; property counts -11% vs 2020. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Natchitoches 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 71070

Similar county violent rate (~192/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,299)

County detail: Natchitoches 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.