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<br /> Orange County Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Master Plan
<br /> CHAPTER 5 -Demographics and Driving Factors
<br /> Demographics and Driving Factors Table 5-B: Population by Townships and
<br /> Municipalities within Orange County
<br /> The population of Orange County is 138,000 persons
<br /> (137,941) as of July, 20121. Approximately two-
<br /> thirds (2/3) of the population resides within the Bingham Town ship 6,527
<br /> boundaries of the municipalities of Chapel Hill Cedar GroveTownship 5,222
<br /> (55,474 within Orange County) and Carrboro Chapel Will Township3 87,971
<br /> (20,433). Almost 10,000 of Chapel Hill residents are Chapel Hill(part) 54,397
<br /> students living on-campus at the University of North
<br /> C Carrboro 19,582
<br /> Carolina (UNC).
<br /> Unincorporated 13,992
<br /> The town of Hillsborough is home to 6,271 persons, Cheeks Township 9,313
<br /> while Mebane's population of 12,685 includes
<br /> approximately 2,000 persons on the Orange County Mebane(part) 1,793
<br /> side of this city.Table 6-A shows the relative popula- Unincorporated 7,520
<br /> lion change by locality in the last 12 years. Eno Township 7,501
<br /> Hillsborough Township 13,809
<br /> Table 5-A: Orange County Population 2000-2012 Hillsborough 6,087
<br /> '• m ' M Unincorporated 7,722
<br /> Orange County-Total 115,531 133,801 137,941
<br /> Little River Township 3,458
<br /> Carrboro 16,782 19,582 20,433 Orange County-Total 133,801
<br /> Chapel Hill(part)2 46,019 54,397 55,474 In general terms, the population of the combined
<br /> Hillsborough 5,446 6,087 6,271 towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro urban area (i.e.,
<br /> Mebane(part) 675 1,793 2,000 the town populations plus those persons living on
<br /> Durham(part) 39 30 32 the town fringes) stands at around 81,000. The
<br /> Unincorporated
<br /> Town of Hillsborough "urban area" includes approxi-
<br /> Orange County 46,570 51,912 53,731 mately 10,000 persons, with another 6,000 persons
<br /> living in the Efland to Mebane corridor of the county
<br /> *Around 2,950 Chapel Hill residents in 2012 live in the west of Hillsborough.
<br /> Durham County portion of town. Most of the residents of
<br /> Mebane (12,685) and Durham (239,358) are in Alamance
<br /> and Durham counties, respectively.
<br /> While the U.S. Census Bureau updated some
<br /> population data for July 2012, other demographic i
<br /> data was not updated. For these data, the 2010 US
<br /> Census remains the most-recent information. As
<br /> such, the most recent population at the township
<br /> level is from the 2010 Census. As shown in Table
<br /> 5-B,Orange County has seven townships with widely Approximately 41,000 persons live in the rest of
<br /> -varying populations. The townships include popula- "rural" Orange County. As a general benchmark,
<br /> lions within municipalities that lie within the town- roughly half of these persons reside south of Inter-
<br /> ship borders. state 85, and half north of this highway-that bisects
<br /> the county.
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