ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29670

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,669
Property rate /100K (county)
10,422
Population (ZIP)
314
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29670 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29670 sits within Anderson 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.

Anderson County reported a violent-crime rate of 314 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,669 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 29670 carries a Census-reported population of 10,422, ranking #8 of 11 ZIPs in Anderson County, spread across 56.07 square miles (about 186 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Anderson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Anderson County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29670 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Anderson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29670 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
$67,280
Median age
42.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
70%
Occupied homes
4,364

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 29670?

Within the participating-agency records for Anderson County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 11% below and property crime is 2% 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 29670. 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.

29670 is comparatively spread out at about 186 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.

Anderson County UCR book ZIP 29670 inherits

ZIP 29670 itself is about 186 people per Census sq mi across 56.1 sq mi (10,422 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29670 accounts for roughly 5.1% of the county reporting population (10,422 of 203,718).

Anderson County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 4,039 offenses; mix index 4,223). ZIP 29670 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Anderson County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +2% vs 2023; property counts -6% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Anderson 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 29670

Similar county violent rate (~314/100K)

Similar Census population (~10,422)

County detail: Anderson 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.