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DIARVI HILL mR8ANE Total Town population-37,688 Total Town population. .3,761 --in Durham County 483 ---in Alamance County. .3,244 --in Orange County 37,205 ---in Orange County However, the aisa�ea.oahasrbeenoalteredngintrecent and years�.lDroamatic declining rural a population increases in the rural townships are re fiving1a80 greater proportion of County development. By Census, Bingham and Eno Townships CheekstandhCedartGrove Towr►shiPsn , the County, while Hillsborough, began to show a positive growth rate - a reversal of their negative growth rates during the 1960-1970 decade. Only Little River townships experienced a growth rate lower than Chapel Bill Township, the predominant urban and urbanizing township. In absolute numbers the acthofnthis changetonnareas characterized by small. However, the uap agricultural development is low density, low intensity rural and age's significant. Recent trends indicate that this trend is continuing and will continue to d inntheeurhansareas®o future Oc►untygrowth potential becomes limited Migration, As may be expected for an area of relatively high economic population residential attraction, a considerable portion of natural populationn growth is due to migration, rather than simply increase. As shown in Table 2-7, the net migration fornNo the Carolina during the 1960-1970 period was -14.2%. Orange the other hand, experienced a positive net migration rate of 16.1%. Most of this gain was due to white in-migration as more non-whittess left the County than entered as new residents, at a migr of -12.6%. This pattern may reflect the imbalance of economic opportunities in the re egionldu due sect . the hehigh concentration of employment in the white migration rate for the Bowever, in the decade of the 1970 s the net mig mnarwhelf, had state had reversed itself to +7.86%. Orange County, period. increased its net migration rate to 25.7% during the same Recent data since 1980 suggests that the state and county are continuing to show a positive net migration rate, although. foteatf the high rates that occurred during the 1970's. The Satte Budget and Management estimates hstate mhas show rate 4.7% rate from 1980-1987, while Orange ratigr indicates has dropped considerably to 7.5%. This rate of migration that much of the County's rapid growth durimmng the 1970's was attributable to in-migration, and that this pattern has subsisedaed somewhat but continues to play a major role in the county's growth. 3