ZIP Code 29461, Moncks Corner, SC: Boundaries, Population, Housing and Schools

What area ZIP code 29461 actually covers

A ZIP code is a US Postal Service delivery area, not a municipal or Census boundary, and 29461 is a good example of the mismatch. The Census Reporter profile for ZCTA 29461 puts the ZIP’s population at 43,816 across 164.2 square miles. The town of Moncks Corner itself, per Wikipedia’s sourced Census figures, had 13,297 residents in the 2020 Census across 11.37 square miles of land. That means the ZIP holds roughly three times the town’s population inside more than fourteen times the land area, almost all of it unincorporated county land outside the town’s own government.

For a specific street address, the only way to confirm which ZIP it falls under is the USPS ZIP Code Lookup tool, since postal boundaries can split a road down the middle.

Does ZIP code 29461 cover all of the town of Moncks Corner?Yes, the whole town sits inside 29461. The part worth checking case by case is an address near the edge of the ZIP: a road can carry one ZIP on one side and a neighboring one on the other, so the USPS lookup tool is the only way to confirm a specific property rather than assuming from the town name alone.

Population and household income in 29461

Source: Census Reporter, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates.

Income and home value in 29461 land close to the national figures, but the metro comparison is the sharper one: the ZIP trails Charleston-North Charleston by about $2,600 in median household income and by 14 points in four-year-degree attainment, a bigger gap than the income numbers alone suggest.

How reliable is the $82,666 income figure?The margin of error the Census Bureau publishes for that estimate is ±$4,610, so the ZIP’s true five-year average household income most likely falls somewhere between about $78,000 and $87,300, not a single precise number.

Housing stock and cost of living

The ZIP contains 16,715 housing units against 15,859 households, a gap of about 856 units consistent with a mix of seasonal, vacant, and under-construction stock. Median owner-occupied home value, at $301,700, sits well above the South Carolina median and about 80 percent of the metro figure. Two useful figures, median gross rent and typical construction era for the ZIP specifically, aren’t reliably published at this geography from a source that names its own methodology; this page leaves them as open questions for a follow-up data pull instead of estimating them.

Distance to Charleston, Goose Creek and Summerville

Goose Creek and Summerville both fall inside a half-hour drive along US-52 and US-17 Alternate, while Charleston adds roughly double that time, mostly along I-26. Anyone commuting daily to the coast rather than to Summerville or Goose Creek should budget for the longer of the two trips, not the shorter.

How far is 29461 from Charleston?About 33 miles and 45 minutes by car under normal traffic, following I-26. That’s roughly double the drive to Goose Creek or Summerville.

Local employers and landmarks

Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility, has its corporate headquarters at 1 Riverwood Drive in Moncks Corner, inside 29461. Founded in 1934 as part of a New Deal rural electrification project, per Wikipedia, the company reports a workforce of 1,001 to 5,000 employees on its LinkedIn company page. Berkeley County School District, headquartered at 107 East Main Street, also in 29461, describes itself as the fourth-largest school district in South Carolina, making it one of the ZIP’s larger direct employers.

For a landmark with an address and a date attached: Old Santee Canal Park, at 900 Stony Landing Road, opened in 1989 on 195 acres run by Berkeley County, with four miles of boardwalk trail through Biggin Creek’s cypress swamp.

Schools serving 29461

Source: Berkeley County School District for the elementary list, its individual school contact pages for the middle and high schools, and US News for the magnet high school profile.

All ten schools fall under Berkeley County School District, and six of the ten sit on just two roads, Live Oak Drive and Main Street, inside the town itself rather than scattered across the county.

Which school district serves ZIP code 29461?Berkeley County School District, the fourth-largest in South Carolina by its own description, headquartered at 107 East Main Street in Moncks Corner.

Where ZIP lines and school lines diverge

ZIP boundaries, school attendance zones, and the town’s own municipal line rarely match. An address ten minutes from the schools listed above can still be zoned for a different one depending on which side of a road it sits. Anyone buying or enrolling based on a specific school should verify the attendance zone directly with Berkeley County School District rather than assume ZIP code alone settles it.

Is 29461 a good area to live in

The figures above answer that better than an adjective would: income and home values close to the national median, both nearby cities under a half-hour away and Charleston under 45 minutes, and a school system concentrated enough that six of ten zoned schools sit inside the town itself. Set against the wider metro, what the ZIP doesn’t offer is the same rate of four-year college attainment or the same income ceiling. It reads as a commuter and county-seat ZIP built around Santee Cooper and the school district, not a high-income coastal suburb.