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Richland County · South Carolina

ZIP code 29208

Population, income, housing costs and the sales tax rate charged on purchases inside ZIP 29208 — Census 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, no modelled estimates.
Population
2,381

ZCTA residents

Median income
—

Household, past 12 months

Median home
—

Owner-occupied value

Sales tax
6%

South Carolina state rate

Quick answer

ZIP 29208 sits in Richland County, South Carolina and is home to 2,381 people. Median household income is —, the median home is worth — and median gross rent is —. — of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 6% (South Carolina state rate).

County
Richland County

FIPS 45079

State
South Carolina (SC)

424 ZIPs covered

Area codes
Not published

No NANPA match for this ZIP

Metro area
Outside covered metros

Rate jurisdiction used for tax

The numbers for 29208

American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.

Population
2,381ZIP 29208 residents
Median household income
—Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value
—Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent
—Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age
18.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate
—Owner-occupied households

ZIP 29208 in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

ZIP 29208 is a small town in Richland County, South Carolina, with 2,381 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #288 of 424 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 18.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in ZIP 29208 earn a median of not published a year. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches an unpublished share of residents here.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 29208 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The homeownership rate is not published. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 18.8 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent, poverty rate for ZIP 29208 because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.

Reading ZIP 29208 in context

How 29208 sits inside Richland County and South Carolina.

ZIP 29208 is tabulated inside Richland County, South Carolina, one of 18 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 424 across South Carolina. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 29208 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 29208 reports a median household income of not published. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

South Carolina charges 6% statewide, and local governments overlapping 29208 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 29208 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.

Sales tax in 29208

What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.

Rate applied
6%State base rate only
Tax on $100
$6Rounded to the dollar
Tax on $1,000
$60Before any exemptions

South Carolina levies 6% statewide, and counties, cities and special districts inside this ZIP can add their own local rate on top. Check the county page for the local component before you quote a price.

Affordability in this ZIP

Derived from the Census medians above — indicative, not an offer.

Rent burden
—Median rent ÷ median income
Price-to-income
—Home value ÷ household income
Est. mortgage
—20% down, 30-yr at 6.75%
Poverty rate
—Residents below poverty line

A rent burden above 30% is the federal threshold for cost-burdened households, and a price-to-income multiple above 4× is generally considered a stretched housing market. The mortgage figure is principal and interest only — taxes, insurance and HOA dues are extra.

How 29208 compares

ZIP 29208 against the median ZIP in Richland County and across South Carolina.

MeasureZIP 29208County medianState medianvs state
Median household income—$58,741$57,227—
Median home value—$183,800$166,650—
Median gross rent—$1,212$930—
Population2,38121,4065,352-56%

Medians are computed across the 18 ZIP areas in Richland County and the 424 ZIP areas in South Carolina.

Statewide rank

Where this ZIP places among all 424 South Carolina ZIP areas.

Income

Not published

—
Home value

Not published

—
Population

larger than 32% of 424 state ZIPs

#288

Nearby ZIP codes

Other ZIP codes filed under Richland County.

Adjacent ZIP Codes

Other ZIP codes in Richland County, South Carolina.

ZIP 29208 questions

Common questions about this ZIP code.

Where is ZIP code 29208?
ZIP 29208 lies mostly in Richland County, South Carolina. County assignment follows the largest share of land area, so a ZIP straddling a county line is filed under its dominant county.
What sales tax do I pay in 29208?
South Carolina charges 6% statewide, plus any county, city or district rate that applies locally.
Is 29208 expensive to live in?
Median rent runs — a month, and the median home is worth — — — against the typical South Carolina ZIP.
Is a ZCTA the same as a postal ZIP code?
Not exactly. The Census builds ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the ZIP codes of addresses inside each census block, so a ZCTA can differ slightly from the USPS delivery route of the same number, and PO-box-only ZIPs have no ZCTA at all.

Related pages for this area.

Sources & transparency

Every figure on this page is a published estimate for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 29208, except the affordability ratios and mortgage estimate, which we derive from those medians and label as estimates.

Last reviewed December 2024. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.