ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29936

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,181
Property rate /100K (county)
13,123
Population (ZIP)
729
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29936 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29936 sits within Jasper County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs above the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well above the national average: 729 violent incidents and 1,181 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 29936 carries a Census-reported population of 13,123, ranking #1 of 5 ZIPs in Jasper County, spread across 231.75 square miles (about 57 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Jasper County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Jasper County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29936 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Jasper County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29936 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
$43,627
Median age
38.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
66%
Occupied homes
5,062

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 29936?

Participating agencies give Jasper County a split reported profile: violent crime is 107% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 31% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 29936. 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.

29936 is comparatively spread out at about 57 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.

Jasper County UCR book ZIP 29936 inherits

ZIP 29936 itself is about 57 people per Census sq mi across 231.8 sq mi (13,123 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29936's 13,123 residents are about 45.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (28,791), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Jasper County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 3,136). ZIP 29936 has no separate FBI offense book.

Jasper County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +1% vs 2023; property counts -29% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Jasper 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 29936

Similar county violent rate (~729/100K)

Similar Census population (~13,123)

County detail: Jasper 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.