ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29630

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

453
Property rate /100K (county)
15,638
Population (ZIP)
100
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29630 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29630 sits within Pickens County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 100 violent incidents and 453 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 29630 carries a Census-reported population of 15,638, ranking #5 of 9 ZIPs in Pickens County, spread across 61.55 square miles (about 254 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Pickens County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Pickens County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29630 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Pickens County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29630 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
$50,864
Median age
28.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
45%
Occupied homes
6,610

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 29630?

Within the participating-agency records for Pickens County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 72% below and property crime is 74% 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 29630. 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 29630 sits near the middle of Pickens County's ZIP population ordering (#5 of 9). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Pickens County UCR book ZIP 29630 inherits

ZIP 29630 itself is about 254 people per Census sq mi across 61.6 sq mi (15,638 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29630 accounts for roughly 11.9% of the county reporting population (15,638 of 131,404).

Pickens County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,169). ZIP 29630 has no separate FBI offense book.

Pickens County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -11% vs 2023; property counts -21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Pickens 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 29630

Similar county violent rate (~100/100K)

Similar Census population (~15,638)

County detail: Pickens 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.