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Orange County, North Carolina
Orange County sits in the north-central Piedmont just west of Durham, defined by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and neighboring Carrboro, with historic Hillsborough serving as county seat amid a rural western half. University and UNC Health jobs anchor demand, while a rural buffer withholding water and sewer service outside town limits, plus strict slope and tree ordinances, constrain new lot supply.
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Orange County at a glance
- 152,000Population (2025)
- HillsboroughCounty seat
- 398 sq miLand area
- 382 / sq miDensity
- $90,000Median household income
- $460,000Median home value
What the live Orange County map shows
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- City Boundaries: 4
- School Boundaries - Elementary: 16
- School Boundaries - Middle: 7
- School Boundaries - High: 5
- Residential: 1
- Commercial: 1
- Zoning: 49
- Traffic Counts: 151
- Congressional Districts: 1
- Emergency Services: 2
- Flood Zones: 1
- HUD: 25
- Opportunity Zones: 1
- Parks & Golf: 7
- Schools: 24
- Soils: 115
- State House Districts: 8
- State Senate Districts: 4
- Townships: 7
- Zip Codes: 18
Cities and towns in Orange County
Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Mebane.
Neighboring counties
- Durham County, NC · map
- Alamance County, NC · map
- Person County, NC · map
- Chatham County, NC · map
- Caswell County, NC · map