ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71220

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

757
Property rate /100K (county)
20,973
Population (ZIP)
265
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71220 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71220 sits within Morehouse 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.

Morehouse County reported a violent-crime rate of 265 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 757 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 71220 carries a Census-reported population of 20,973, ranking #1 of 6 ZIPs in Morehouse County, spread across 373.57 square miles (about 56 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Morehouse County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Morehouse County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71220 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Morehouse County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71220 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
$37,774
Median age
38.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
66%
Occupied homes
7,611

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 71220?

Within the participating-agency records for Morehouse County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 25% below and property crime is 56% 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 71220. 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.

71220 is comparatively spread out at about 56 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.

Morehouse County UCR book ZIP 71220 inherits

ZIP 71220 itself is about 56 people per Census sq mi across 373.6 sq mi (20,973 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71220's 20,973 residents are about 81.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (25,629), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Morehouse County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,362). ZIP 71220 has no separate FBI offense book.

Morehouse County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +5% vs 2023; property counts -25% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Morehouse 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 71220

Similar county violent rate (~265/100K)

Similar Census population (~20,973)

County detail: Morehouse 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.