ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71109

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

222
Property rate /100K (county)
17,971
Population (ZIP)
19
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71109 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71109 sits within Caddo 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: 19 violent incidents and 222 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 71109 carries a Census-reported population of 17,971, ranking #6 of 24 ZIPs in Caddo County, spread across 12.78 square miles (about 1,406 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Caddo County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Caddo County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71109 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Caddo County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71109 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
$31,377
Median age
37.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
46%
Occupied homes
7,106
Median home value
$88,100
Bachelor's degree or higher
13.9%
Poverty rate
35.3%
Unemployment rate
17.6%

ZIP 71109's median home value of $88,100 sits higher than 14% 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 71109?

Within the participating-agency records for Caddo County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 95% below and property crime is 87% 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 71109. 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.

ZIP 71109 sits near the middle of Caddo County's ZIP population ordering (#6 of 24). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Caddo County UCR book ZIP 71109 inherits

ZIP 71109 itself is about 1,406 people per Census sq mi across 12.8 sq mi (17,971 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71109 accounts for roughly 7.6% of the county reporting population (17,971 of 237,848).

Caddo County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 573 offenses; mix index 4,639). ZIP 71109 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Caddo County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +33% vs 2023; property counts +1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Caddo 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 71109

Similar county violent rate (~19/100K)

Similar Census population (~17,971)

County detail: Caddo 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.