ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29438

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

183
Property rate /100K (county)
2,751
Population (ZIP)
40
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29438 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29438 sits within Charleston County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 40 violent incidents and 183 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 29438 carries a Census-reported population of 2,751, ranking #17 of 26 ZIPs in Charleston County, spread across 75.12 square miles (about 37 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Charleston County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Charleston County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29438 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Charleston County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29438 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
$69,044
Median age
62.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
86%
Occupied homes
1,333

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 29438?

Within the participating-agency records for Charleston County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 89% below and property crime is 89% 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 29438. 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.

29438 is comparatively spread out at about 37 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.

Charleston County UCR book ZIP 29438 inherits

ZIP 29438 itself is about 37 people per Census sq mi across 75.1 sq mi (2,751 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29438 is about 0.7% of the county reporting population (2,751 of 408,235), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Charleston County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 909 offenses; mix index 4,130). ZIP 29438 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Charleston County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -35% vs 2023; property counts -31% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Charleston 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 29438

Similar county violent rate (~40/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,751)

County detail: Charleston 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.