ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71701

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

548
Property rate /100K (county)
18,102
Population (ZIP)
172
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71701 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71701 sits within Ouachita County, AR, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 172 violent incidents and 548 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 71701 carries a Census-reported population of 18,102, ranking #1 of 5 ZIPs in Ouachita County, spread across 287.46 square miles (about 63 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Ouachita County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Ouachita County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71701 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Ouachita County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71701 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
$50,341
Median age
38.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
73%
Occupied homes
6,563

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 71701?

Within the participating-agency records for Ouachita County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 51% below and property crime is 68% 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 71701. 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.

71701 is comparatively spread out at about 63 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.

Ouachita County UCR book ZIP 71701 inherits

ZIP 71701 itself is about 63 people per Census sq mi across 287.5 sq mi (18,102 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71701's 18,102 residents are about 79.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (22,650), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Ouachita County leans on larceny-theft at 37% of reported offenses (mix index 2,631). ZIP 71701 has no separate FBI offense book.

Ouachita 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 71701

Similar county violent rate (~172/100K)

Similar Census population (~18,102)

County detail: Ouachita County · State atlas: Arkansas

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.