ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29563

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,241
Property rate /100K (county)
1,985
Population (ZIP)
587
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29563 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29563 sits within Dillon County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Dillon County's reported crime sits somewhat above the national average: 587 violent and 1,241 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 29563 carries a Census-reported population of 1,985, ranking #4 of 6 ZIPs in Dillon County, spread across 37.68 square miles (about 53 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dillon County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dillon County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29563 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Dillon County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29563 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
$37,727
Median age
55.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
64%
Occupied homes
826

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 29563?

Participating agencies give Dillon County a split reported profile: violent crime is 67% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 27% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 29563. 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.

29563 is comparatively spread out at about 53 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.

Dillon County UCR book ZIP 29563 inherits

ZIP 29563 itself is about 53 people per Census sq mi across 37.7 sq mi (1,985 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29563 accounts for roughly 7% of the county reporting population (1,985 of 28,292).

Dillon County leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses (mix index 2,907). ZIP 29563 has no separate FBI offense book.

Dillon 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.

Dillon 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 29563

Similar county violent rate (~587/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,985)

County detail: Dillon 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.