ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29532

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,814
Property rate /100K (county)
20,000
Population (ZIP)
528
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29532 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29532 sits within Darlington County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Darlington County's reported crime sits somewhat above the national average: 528 violent and 1,814 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 29532 carries a Census-reported population of 20,000, ranking #2 of 6 ZIPs in Darlington County, spread across 114.83 square miles (about 174 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Darlington County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Darlington County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29532 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Darlington County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29532 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
$39,553
Median age
44.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
61%
Occupied homes
8,012

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 29532?

Within the participating-agency records for Darlington County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit above their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 50% above and property crime is 6% above. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or locate crime inside ZIP 29532. 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.

29532 is comparatively spread out at about 174 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.

Darlington County UCR book ZIP 29532 inherits

ZIP 29532 itself is about 174 people per Census sq mi across 114.8 sq mi (20,000 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29532's 20,000 residents are about 31.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (62,905), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Darlington County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 2,874). ZIP 29532 has no separate FBI offense book.

Darlington County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -17% vs 2023; property counts -19% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Darlington 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 29532

Similar county violent rate (~528/100K)

Similar Census population (~20,000)

County detail: Darlington 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.