ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29208

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,222
Property rate /100K (county)
2,281
Population (ZIP)
353
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29208 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29208 sits within Richland County, SC. 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.

Richland County reported a violent-crime rate of 353 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,222 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

With 2,281 residents, ZIP 29208 is among the smaller ZIPs in Richland County (#16 of 18 by population), spread across 0.14 square miles (16,293/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Richland County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Richland County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29208 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Richland County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29208 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 age
18.9 years
Occupied homes
0

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 29208?

Participating agencies give Richland County a split reported profile: violent crime is 0% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 29% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 29208. 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, 29208 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#16 of 18). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Richland County UCR book ZIP 29208 inherits

ZIP 29208 itself is about 16,293 people per Census sq mi across 0.1 sq mi (2,281 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29208 is about 0.5% of the county reporting population (2,281 of 416,147), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Richland County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,354). ZIP 29208 has no separate FBI offense book.

Richland County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -28% vs 2023; property counts -26% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Richland 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 29208

Similar county violent rate (~353/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,281)

County detail: Richland 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.