ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29909

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

887
Property rate /100K (county)
23,490
Population (ZIP)
231
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29909 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29909 sits within Beaufort County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Beaufort County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 231 violent and 887 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 29909 carries a Census-reported population of 23,490, ranking #4 of 14 ZIPs in Beaufort County, spread across 55.66 square miles (about 422 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Beaufort County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Beaufort County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29909 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Beaufort County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29909 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
$86,159
Median age
69.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
93%
Occupied homes
11,553

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 29909?

Within the participating-agency records for Beaufort County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 34% below and property crime is 48% 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 29909. 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 29909 sits near the middle of Beaufort County's ZIP population ordering (#4 of 14). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Beaufort County UCR book ZIP 29909 inherits

ZIP 29909 itself is about 422 people per Census sq mi across 55.7 sq mi (23,490 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29909 accounts for roughly 12.6% of the county reporting population (23,490 of 187,117).

Beaufort County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 2,092 offenses; mix index 4,224). ZIP 29909 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Beaufort County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -20% vs 2023; property counts -5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Beaufort 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 29909

Similar county violent rate (~231/100K)

Similar Census population (~23,490)

County detail: Beaufort 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.