29073Red Bank, South Carolina

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 29073.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 11% of 6,210 published ZIP areas77
SchoolsTop 49% of 4,422 published ZIP areas52
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 6,685 published ZIP areas100
ClimateTop 44% of 6,789 published ZIP areas72
Physical resilience3427th of 6,709 published ZIP areas57
AccessTop 21% of 6,791 published ZIP areas98
Economic stabilityTop 47% of 6,742 published ZIP areas62
The quick read

29073 ranks in the top 11% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.7% and median household income of $77,229.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 16% of median household income and the median home is 2.8 times it.

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

At a glance

Population
53,156
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$77,229
Top 42% nationally
Density
649/sq mi
81.8 sq mi of land
Median age
36.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Red Bank
South Carolina
Metro area
Columbia, SC
Nearest major airport
CAE
7 mi · Columbia Metro
Median home value
$216,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

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

Employment grew 2.6% over the past year, to 156,852 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,017$77,229Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,568$33,359Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate12.5%Top 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.5 minBottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher24.3%Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment156,852Top 26%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)5.3%Top 4%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)2.6%Top 3%June 2026
Labor force162,941Top 26%June 2026
Labor force participation66.8%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$59,030Bottom 15%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,430Bottom 13%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.3%Bottom 31%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.7%Bottom 22%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202477k65k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $77,229 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 — Columbia, SC
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers11,640$27,170
Retail Salespersons10,860$29,540
Customer Service Representatives10,430$37,430
Stockers and Order Fillers9,470$37,180
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand9,410$37,530
Registered Nurses9,400$81,920

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 Red Bank, SC, the city containing this ZIP code.

34% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 42% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.0 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
7
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.0
across all schools here
Math proficiency
34.1%
Bottom 45% in South Carolina
Reading proficiency
42.1%
Bottom 44% in South Carolina
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
White Knoll HighLexington 012,02515.3
Carolina Springs MiddleLexington 0179112.422%37%
Deerfield ElementaryLexington 0175312.342%52%
Oak Grove ElementaryLexington 0169112.338%41%
Red Bank ElementaryLexington 0155611.635%45%
Saxe Gotha ElementaryLexington 0149911.335%40%
Carolina Springs ElementaryLexington 0143811.534%34%

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 $1,061 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.8 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
16.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,061
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$216,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.80Bottom 40%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate81.7%Top 42%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±1,00321,096Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$76$1,061Top 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$6,105$216,300Bottom 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.5%Bottom 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.1%Bottom 23%2024 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

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 93°F and January a low of 35°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 45.2 inches, including 1.2 inches of snow.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station COLUMBIA, 7.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation45.2"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low35°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high93°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing37°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

57 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, earthquake and ice storm.

Ice stormModerate
LightningModerate
HurricaneElevated
EarthquakeElevated
LandslideModerate

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

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. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Lexington County records 4.8 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 18.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 22.9 per 100,000 residents in Lexington County.

Homicide
4.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
18.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
22.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
18.1
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 Lexington 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 29073 rather than 29073 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
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. 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.

Access

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

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Columbia MetroCAE7 mi8,601 ft
Augusta Rgnl At Bush FldAGS55 mi8,001 ft
Donaldson FldGYH88 mi8,000 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
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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

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.

29073 vs Red Bank

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

29073
Red Bank
Median household income
$77,229
vs
$68,004
Per capita income
$33,359
vs
$29,773
Population density
649/sq mi
vs
902/sq mi
Median home value
$216,300
vs
$189,000
Median gross rent
$1,061
vs
$1,160
Homeownership rate
81.7%
vs
77.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher
24.3%
vs
19.3%
Poverty rate
12.5%
vs
11.5%
Median age
36.7
vs
36.9

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.