ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29439

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

183
Property rate /100K (county)
855
Population (ZIP)
40
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29439 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29439 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.

With 855 residents, ZIP 29439 is among the smaller ZIPs in Charleston County (#25 of 26 by population), spread across 2.91 square miles (294/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Charleston County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Charleston County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29439 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 29439 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
$87,554
Median age
63.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
549
Median home value
$637,500
Bachelor's degree or higher
44.2%
Poverty rate
16.3%
Unemployment rate
0.0%

ZIP 29439's median home value of $637,500 is higher than 98% of the 376 SC ZIPs with a reported value, one of the priciest in the state by this measure.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, housing tenure, home value, education, and unemployment).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 29439?

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 29439. 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, 29439 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#25 of 26). 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.

Charleston County UCR book ZIP 29439 inherits

ZIP 29439 itself is about 294 people per Census sq mi across 2.9 sq mi (855 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29439 is about 0.2% of the county reporting population (855 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 29439 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.

Read with ZIP 29439

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.