ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29115

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)
27,024
Population (ZIP)
848
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29115 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29115 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 29115 is the largest ZIP in Orangeburg County by population, 27,024 residents (#1 of 17 county ZIPs), across 124.65 square miles (217/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Orangeburg County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Orangeburg County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29115 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 29115 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
$31,473
Median age
38.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
50%
Occupied homes
10,536

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 29115?

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 29115. 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.

Within the county, 29115 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 17). Its 27,024 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Orangeburg County UCR book ZIP 29115 inherits

ZIP 29115 itself is about 217 people per Census sq mi across 124.7 sq mi (27,024 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29115's 27,024 residents are about 32.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (84,223), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Orangeburg County leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses (mix index 3,411). ZIP 29115 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 29115

Similar county violent rate (~848/100K)

Similar Census population (~27,024)

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.