ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29720

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,109
Property rate /100K (county)
52,308
Population (ZIP)
289
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29720 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29720 sits within Lancaster 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.

Lancaster County reported a violent-crime rate of 289 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,109 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 29720 carries a Census-reported population of 52,308, ranking #1 of 4 ZIPs in Lancaster County, spread across 284.89 square miles (about 184 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Lancaster County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lancaster County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29720 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Lancaster County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29720 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
$58,549
Median age
40.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
76%
Occupied homes
20,097

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 29720?

Within the participating-agency records for Lancaster County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 18% below and property crime is 35% 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 29720. 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.

29720 is comparatively spread out at about 184 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.

Lancaster County UCR book ZIP 29720 inherits

ZIP 29720 itself is about 184 people per Census sq mi across 284.9 sq mi (52,308 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29720's 52,308 residents are about 54.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (96,016), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Lancaster County leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses (mix index 3,880). ZIP 29720 has no separate FBI offense book.

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

Lancaster 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 29720

Similar county violent rate (~289/100K)

Similar Census population (~52,308)

County detail: Lancaster 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.