ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29571

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,189
Property rate /100K (county)
14,147
Population (ZIP)
432
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29571 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29571 sits within Marion County, SC. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Marion County reported a violent-crime rate of 432 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,189 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 29571 carries a Census-reported population of 14,147, ranking #1 of 6 ZIPs in Marion County, spread across 201.75 square miles (about 70 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Marion County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Marion County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29571 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Marion County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29571 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
$37,088
Median age
41.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
55%
Occupied homes
5,184

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 29571?

Participating agencies give Marion County a split reported profile: violent crime is 23% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 31% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 29571. 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.

29571 is comparatively spread out at about 70 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.

Marion County UCR book ZIP 29571 inherits

ZIP 29571 itself is about 70 people per Census sq mi across 201.8 sq mi (14,147 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29571's 14,147 residents are about 48.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (29,183), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Marion County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 2,969). ZIP 29571 has no separate FBI offense book.

Marion County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +7% vs 2023; property counts -12% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Marion 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 29571

Similar county violent rate (~432/100K)

Similar Census population (~14,147)

County detail: Marion 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.