ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29585

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

814
Property rate /100K (county)
16,268
Population (ZIP)
207
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29585 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29585 sits within Georgetown County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Georgetown County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 207 violent and 814 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 29585 carries a Census-reported population of 16,268, ranking #2 of 3 ZIPs in Georgetown County, spread across 61.8 square miles (about 263 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Georgetown County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Georgetown County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29585 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Georgetown County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29585 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
$74,418
Median age
61.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
86%
Occupied homes
7,495

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 29585?

Within the participating-agency records for Georgetown County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 41% below and property crime is 52% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 29585. 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.

ZIP 29585 sits near the middle of Georgetown County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 3). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Georgetown County UCR book ZIP 29585 inherits

ZIP 29585 itself is about 263 people per Census sq mi across 61.8 sq mi (16,268 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29585's 16,268 residents are about 25.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (63,404), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Georgetown County leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses (mix index 3,552). ZIP 29585 has no separate FBI offense book.

Georgetown County 2024 vs 2022: violent counts -22% vs 2022; property counts -29% vs 2022. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Georgetown 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 29585

Similar county violent rate (~207/100K)

Similar Census population (~16,268)

County detail: Georgetown 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.