ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71242

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

308
Property rate /100K (county)
67
Population (ZIP)
82
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71242 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71242 sits within West Carroll 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.

West Carroll County reported a violent-crime rate of 82 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 308 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 8 reported violent incidents across a county population of 9,751, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.

With 67 residents, ZIP 71242 is among the smaller ZIPs in West Carroll County (#5 of 5 by population), spread across 0.03 square miles (2,233/sq mi). For a full breakdown of West Carroll County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the West Carroll County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71242 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from West Carroll County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71242 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
$36,667
Median age
19.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
50%
Occupied homes
12
Bachelor's degree or higher
23.5%
Poverty rate
3.0%
Unemployment rate
65.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).

West Carroll County UCR book ZIP 71242 inherits

ZIP 71242 itself is about 2,233 people per Census sq mi across 0 sq mi (67 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71242 is about 0.7% of the county reporting population (67 of 9,751), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

West Carroll County leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses (mix index 3,657). ZIP 71242 has no separate FBI offense book.

West Carroll County 2024 vs 2023: property counts flat vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

West Carroll 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.

Read with ZIP 71242

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.