29611Parker, South Carolina

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 29611.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 24% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured68
Schools2894th of 4,422 ZIP areas measured39
Housing affordability4265th of 6,685 ZIP areas measured71
Climate3429th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured70
Physical resilienceTop 44% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured64
AccessTop 21% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured98
Economic stability5212th of 6,742 ZIP areas measured43
The quick read

29611 ranks in the top 24% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.7% and median household income of $51,565.

In the public schools here, 33% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 14.3 students for every teacher.

A major airport is 7 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
32,365
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$51,565
Bottom 17% nationally
Density
1,351/sq mi
23.9 sq mi of land
Median age
34.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Parker
South Carolina
Metro area
Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC
Nearest major airport
GYH
7 mi · Donaldson Fld
Median home value
$195,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.7% is lower than 78% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 3.9% over the past year, to 294,193 employed residents.

Median household income of $51,565 is below 83% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$7,523$51,565Bottom 17%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,759$30,856Bottom 29%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate22.7%Top 14%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.2 minBottom 47%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher20.6%Bottom 42%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment294,193Top 17%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)7.5%Top 2%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)3.9%Top 1%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force305,584Top 17%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation66.4%Top 27%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$59,260Bottom 16%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,580Bottom 15%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.3%Bottom 31%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate3.7%Bottom 22%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202452k40k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $51,565 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers12,280$27,850
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand11,960$38,520
Retail Salespersons11,830$30,840
Cashiers10,250$29,080
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators9,860$40,840
Registered Nurses9,730$81,400

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Parker, SC, the city containing this ZIP code.

33% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 33% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.3 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
33.0%
Bottom 40% in South Carolina
Reading proficiency
33.0%
Bottom 23% in South Carolina
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Legacy Early College · charterSC Public Charter School District1,59214.220%22%
Powdersville HighAnderson 011,02418.6
Carolina Academy (High)Greenville 0197613.9
Powdersville MiddleAnderson 0180114.847%57%
Powdersville ElementaryAnderson 0176517.074%62%
Tanglewood MiddleGreenville 0165213.012%17%
Welcome ElementaryGreenville 0164212.638%40%
Hollis AcademyGreenville 0156612.627%20%
Alexander ElementaryGreenville 0149412.318%18%
Westcliffe ElementaryGreenville 0132312.031%21%

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against South Carolina’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,154 takes 27% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.8 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
26.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,154
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$195,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.80Top 32%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate53.3%Bottom 11%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±90414,432Top 9%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$45$1,154Top 38%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$25,837$195,700Bottom 43%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income26.9%Top 10%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate12.1%Top 46%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 91°F and January a low of 35°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 47.0 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 48, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station GREENVILLE DWTN AP, 6.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index64.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation47.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low35°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high91°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index48.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing37°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
48
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
64
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

64 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, cold wave and earthquake.

Ice stormElevated
LightningModerate
Cold waveModerate
Inland floodingModerate
EarthquakeElevated
HurricaneModerate
LandslideModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, hail, strong wind, heat wave, wildfire, winter weather.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Greenville County records 5.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 15.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 18.8 per 100,000 residents in Greenville County.

Homicide
5.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
18.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
15.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Greenville County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 29611 rather than 29611 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 7 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Donaldson FldGYH7 mi8,000 ft
Asheville RgnlAVL42 mi8,002 ft
Charlotte/Douglas IntlCLT89 mi10,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

29611 vs Parker

How this ZIP area compares with Parker as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

29611
Parker
Median household income
$51,565
vs
$40,043
Per capita income
$30,856
vs
$24,584
Population density
1,351/sq mi
vs
1,891/sq mi
Median home value
$195,700
vs
$150,400
Median gross rent
$1,154
vs
$1,099
Homeownership rate
53.3%
vs
42.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher
20.6%
vs
15.9%
Poverty rate
22.7%
vs
29.6%
Median age
34.8
vs
31.9

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.