ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 71286
East Carroll County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 630
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 379
- Population (ZIP)
- 536
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 71286 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 71286 sits within East Carroll County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
East Carroll County's reported crime sits somewhat above the national average: 630 violent and 536 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 71286 carries a Census-reported population of 379, ranking #2 of 3 ZIPs in East Carroll County, spread across 61.68 square miles (about 6 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of East Carroll County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the East Carroll County crime page linked below.
ZIP 71286 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from East Carroll County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 71286 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
- $60,347
- Median age
- 50.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 100%
- Occupied homes
- 187
- Median home value
- $85,600
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 6.8%
- Poverty rate
- 21.4%
- Unemployment rate
- 37.8%
ZIP 71286's median home value of $85,600 sits higher than 12% 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 71286?
Participating agencies give East Carroll County a split reported profile: violent crime is 79% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 69% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 71286. 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.
71286 is comparatively spread out at about 6 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.
East Carroll County UCR book ZIP 71286 inherits
ZIP 71286 itself is about 6 people per Census sq mi across 61.7 sq mi (379 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 71286 accounts for roughly 5.1% of the county reporting population (379 of 7,459).
East Carroll County leans on aggravated assault at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,373). ZIP 71286 has no separate FBI offense book.
East Carroll County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +52% vs 2023; property counts +60% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
East 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 71286
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.