ZIP code 29487

ZIP 29487 is a small town in Charleston County, South Carolina, with 2,702 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #274 of 424 ranked by population — larger than 35% of them. The median age here is 48.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 29487 earn a median of $93,480 a year, 19% above the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 5% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 29487 is valued at $442,100, 45.7% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,409 a month, essentially level with the national figure, or roughly $16,908 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 90.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

ZIP 29487 is tabulated inside Charleston County, South Carolina, one of 26 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 424 across South Carolina. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. 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 29487 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 29487 reports a median household income of $93,480, 11% above the $84,531 county median, and 63% above the $57,227 typical SC ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $442,100, close to the county figure and 165% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,409 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 29487 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 29487 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.