ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 71111
Bossier County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 296
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 42,953
- Population (ZIP)
- 124
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 71111 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 71111 sits within Bossier 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: 124 violent incidents and 296 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 71111 is the largest ZIP in Bossier County by population, 42,953 residents (#1 of 8 county ZIPs), across 45.23 square miles (950/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Bossier County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Bossier County crime page linked below.
ZIP 71111 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Bossier County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 71111 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
- $65,463
- Median age
- 35.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 57%
- Occupied homes
- 17,012
- Median home value
- $256,700
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 31.1%
- Poverty rate
- 17.9%
- Unemployment rate
- 5.3%
ZIP 71111's median home value of $256,700 sits higher than 88% 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 71111?
Within the participating-agency records for Bossier County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 65% below and property crime is 83% 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 71111. 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, 71111 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 8). Its 42,953 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Bossier County UCR book ZIP 71111 inherits
ZIP 71111 itself is about 950 people per Census sq mi across 45.2 sq mi (42,953 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 71111's 42,953 residents are about 33.4% of the 2024 county reporting population (128,746), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Bossier County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,074). ZIP 71111 has no separate FBI offense book.
Bossier County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +1% vs 2023; property counts -18% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Bossier 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 71111
Similar county violent rate (~124/100K)
- ZIP 32566, FL · 123.4/100K · Santa Rosa County
- ZIP 48653, MI · 123.6/100K · Roscommon County
- ZIP 31078, GA · 123.7/100K · Crawford County
- ZIP 74960, OK · 123.1/100K · Adair County
Similar Census population (~42,953)
- ZIP 91733, CA · 42,953 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 91350, CA · 42,970 pop · Δ17
- ZIP 65803, MO · 42,975 pop · Δ22
- ZIP 15108, PA · 42,914 pop · Δ39
County detail: Bossier 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.