ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 29527
Horry County, South Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 28,167
- Population (ZIP)
- 1
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 1
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 29527 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 29527 sits within Horry County, SC, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 29527 carries a Census-reported population of 28,167, ranking #6 of 16 ZIPs in Horry County, spread across 155.09 square miles (about 182 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Horry County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Horry County crime page linked below.
ZIP 29527 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Horry County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 29527 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
- $48,629
- Median age
- 41.7 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 73%
- Occupied homes
- 9,995
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 29527 settlement vs Horry County
ZIP 29527 itself is about 182 people per Census sq mi across 155.1 sq mi (28,167 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 29527 accounts for roughly 8% of the county reporting population (28,167 of 351,029).
Horry County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 3,000). ZIP 29527 has no separate FBI offense book.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 29527
Similar county violent rate (~1/100K)
- ZIP 75048, TX · 1.5/100K · Dallas County
- ZIP 30324, GA · 1.3/100K · Fulton County
- ZIP 03431, NH · 1.3/100K · Cheshire County
- ZIP 03301, NH · 1.3/100K · Merrimack County
Similar Census population (~28,167)
- ZIP 78410, TX · 28,167 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 70607, LA · 28,165 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 98107, WA · 28,170 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 55404, MN · 28,172 pop · Δ5
County detail: Horry 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.