ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 29516
Marlboro County, South Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 1,369
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 846
- Population (ZIP)
- 495
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 29516 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 29516 sits within Marlboro County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Marlboro County's reported crime sits somewhat above the national average: 495 violent and 1,369 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 29516 carries a Census-reported population of 846, ranking #5 of 6 ZIPs in Marlboro County, spread across 102.95 square miles (about 8 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Marlboro County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Marlboro County crime page linked below.
ZIP 29516 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Marlboro County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 29516 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
- $38,333
- Median age
- 39.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 71%
- Occupied homes
- 232
- Median home value
- $57,500
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 4.4%
- Poverty rate
- 16.2%
- Unemployment rate
- 9.7%
ZIP 29516's median home value of $57,500 is lower than 96% of the 376 SC ZIPs with a reported value, among the most affordable 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 29516?
Participating agencies give Marlboro County a split reported profile: violent crime is 41% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 20% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 29516. 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.
29516 is comparatively spread out at about 8 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.
Marlboro County UCR book ZIP 29516 inherits
ZIP 29516 itself is about 8 people per Census sq mi across 103 sq mi (846 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 29516 accounts for roughly 3.2% of the county reporting population (846 of 26,667).
Marlboro County leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses (mix index 3,059). ZIP 29516 has no separate FBI offense book.
Marlboro County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +9% vs 2023; property counts -14% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Marlboro 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 29516
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.