ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29301

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

907
Property rate /100K (county)
35,380
Population (ZIP)
352
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29301 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29301 sits within Spartanburg 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.

Spartanburg County reported a violent-crime rate of 352 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 907 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 29301 is the largest ZIP in Spartanburg County by population, 35,380 residents (#1 of 29 county ZIPs), across 27.54 square miles (1,285/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Spartanburg County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Spartanburg County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29301 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Spartanburg County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29301 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
$55,011
Median age
37.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
59%
Occupied homes
13,355

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 29301?

Within the participating-agency records for Spartanburg County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 0% below and property crime is 47% 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 29301. 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, 29301 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 29). Its 35,380 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Spartanburg County UCR book ZIP 29301 inherits

ZIP 29301 itself is about 1,285 people per Census sq mi across 27.5 sq mi (35,380 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29301 accounts for roughly 10.8% of the county reporting population (35,380 of 327,997).

Spartanburg County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,406). ZIP 29301 has no separate FBI offense book.

Spartanburg County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -7% vs 2023; property counts -33% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Spartanburg 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 29301

Similar county violent rate (~352/100K)

Similar Census population (~35,380)

County detail: Spartanburg 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.