ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 71452
Natchitoches County, Louisiana: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 989
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 156
- Population (ZIP)
- 192
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 71452 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 71452 sits within Natchitoches County, LA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Natchitoches County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 192 violent and 989 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 71452 carries a Census-reported population of 156, ranking #12 of 16 ZIPs in Natchitoches County, spread across 10.87 square miles (about 14 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Natchitoches County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Natchitoches County crime page linked below.
ZIP 71452 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Natchitoches County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 71452 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
- $27,862
- Median age
- 28.4 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 25%
- Occupied homes
- 85
- Median home value
- $319,200
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 55.9%
- Poverty rate
- 15.4%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.0%
ZIP 71452's median home value of $319,200 is higher than 98% of the 356 LA ZIPs with a reported value, one of the priciest in the state by this measure.
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 71452?
Within the participating-agency records for Natchitoches County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 45% below and property crime is 42% 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 71452. 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.
71452 is comparatively spread out at about 14 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.
Natchitoches County UCR book ZIP 71452 inherits
ZIP 71452 itself is about 14 people per Census sq mi across 10.9 sq mi (156 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 71452 is about 0.4% of the county reporting population (156 of 37,515), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.
Natchitoches County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,141). ZIP 71452 has no separate FBI offense book.
Natchitoches County 2024 vs 2020: violent counts +22% vs 2020; property counts -11% vs 2020. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Natchitoches 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 71452
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.