ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29601

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,328
Property rate /100K (county)
12,993
Population (ZIP)
282
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29601 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29601 sits within Greenville 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.

Greenville County reported a violent-crime rate of 282 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,328 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 29601 carries a Census-reported population of 12,993, ranking #17 of 23 ZIPs in Greenville County, spread across 4.25 square miles (about 3,057 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Greenville County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Greenville County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29601 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Greenville County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29601 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
$70,580
Median age
41.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
32%
Occupied homes
6,769

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 29601?

Within the participating-agency records for Greenville County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 20% below and property crime is 22% 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 29601. 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.

29601 is a densely settled part of the county at about 3,057 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.

Greenville County UCR book ZIP 29601 inherits

ZIP 29601 itself is about 3,057 people per Census sq mi across 4.3 sq mi (12,993 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29601 accounts for roughly 2.5% of the county reporting population (12,993 of 525,534).

Greenville County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 8,459 offenses; mix index 4,196). ZIP 29601 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Greenville County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -11% vs 2023; property counts -3% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Greenville 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 29601

Similar county violent rate (~282/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,993)

County detail: Greenville 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.