ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71302

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

956
Property rate /100K (county)
13,559
Population (ZIP)
295
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71302 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71302 sits within Rapides 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.

Rapides County reported a violent-crime rate of 295 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 956 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 71302 carries a Census-reported population of 13,559, ranking #4 of 19 ZIPs in Rapides County, spread across 57.82 square miles (about 235 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Rapides County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Rapides County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71302 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Rapides County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71302 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
$36,012
Median age
35.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
59%
Occupied homes
5,017

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 71302?

Within the participating-agency records for Rapides County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 16% below and property crime is 44% 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 71302. 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.

71302 is comparatively spread out at about 235 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.

Rapides County UCR book ZIP 71302 inherits

ZIP 71302 itself is about 235 people per Census sq mi across 57.8 sq mi (13,559 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71302 accounts for roughly 10.4% of the county reporting population (13,559 of 130,023).

Rapides County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,241). ZIP 71302 has no separate FBI offense book.

Rapides County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +12% vs 2023; property counts -6% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Rapides 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 71302

Similar county violent rate (~295/100K)

Similar Census population (~13,559)

County detail: Rapides 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.