ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29059

Orangeburg County, South Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

2,338
Property rate /100K (county)
5,258
Population (ZIP)
848
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29059 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29059 sits within Orangeburg County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well above the national average: 848 violent incidents and 2,338 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 29059 carries a Census-reported population of 5,258, ranking #3 of 17 ZIPs in Orangeburg County, spread across 109.17 square miles (about 48 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Orangeburg County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Orangeburg County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29059 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Orangeburg County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29059 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
$37,946
Median age
47.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
75%
Occupied homes
1,979

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 29059?

Within the participating-agency records for Orangeburg County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit above their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 141% above and property crime is 37% above. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or locate crime inside ZIP 29059. 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.

29059 is comparatively spread out at about 48 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.

Orangeburg County UCR book ZIP 29059 inherits

ZIP 29059 itself is about 48 people per Census sq mi across 109.2 sq mi (5,258 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29059 accounts for roughly 6.2% of the county reporting population (5,258 of 84,223).

Orangeburg County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,411). ZIP 29059 has no separate FBI offense book.

Orangeburg County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -22% vs 2023; property counts +19% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Orangeburg 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 29059

Similar county violent rate (~848/100K)

Similar Census population (~5,258)

County detail: Orangeburg County · State atlas: South Carolina

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.