ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71203

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,345
Property rate /100K (county)
40,063
Population (ZIP)
298
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71203 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71203 sits within Ouachita 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.

Ouachita County reported a violent-crime rate of 298 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,345 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 71203 is the largest ZIP in Ouachita County by population, 40,063 residents (#1 of 8 county ZIPs), across 118.54 square miles (338/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Ouachita County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ouachita County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71203 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Ouachita County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71203 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
$43,298
Median age
33.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
56%
Occupied homes
14,839

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 71203?

Within the participating-agency records for Ouachita County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 15% below and property crime is 21% 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 71203. 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, 71203 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 8). Its 40,063 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Ouachita County UCR book ZIP 71203 inherits

ZIP 71203 itself is about 338 people per Census sq mi across 118.5 sq mi (40,063 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71203's 40,063 residents are about 25% of the 2024 county reporting population (160,368), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Ouachita County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,376). ZIP 71203 has no separate FBI offense book.

Ouachita County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -8% vs 2023; property counts -10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Ouachita 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 71203

Similar county violent rate (~298/100K)

Similar Census population (~40,063)

County detail: Ouachita 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.