ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29431

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

973
Property rate /100K (county)
7,060
Population (ZIP)
215
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29431 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29431 sits within Berkeley County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Berkeley County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 215 violent and 973 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 29431 carries a Census-reported population of 7,060, ranking #6 of 13 ZIPs in Berkeley County, spread across 84.72 square miles (about 83 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Berkeley County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Berkeley County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29431 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Berkeley County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29431 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
$56,621
Median age
43.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
78%
Occupied homes
2,624

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 29431?

Within the participating-agency records for Berkeley County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 39% below and property crime is 43% 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 29431. 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.

29431 is comparatively spread out at about 83 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.

Berkeley County UCR book ZIP 29431 inherits

ZIP 29431 itself is about 83 people per Census sq mi across 84.7 sq mi (7,060 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29431 accounts for roughly 3.1% of the county reporting population (7,060 of 229,861).

Berkeley County leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses (mix index 3,470). ZIP 29431 has no separate FBI offense book.

Berkeley County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -9% vs 2023; property counts -13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Berkeley 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 29431

Similar county violent rate (~215/100K)

Similar Census population (~7,060)

County detail: Berkeley 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.