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<br />CCM Economics, LLC Orange County Tax Equity Page 3 <br /> <br /> <br />II. Area of Study <br />A. Orange County <br />Orange County is located in the upper middle portion of the state of North Carolina and is <br />approximately 401 square miles in size. Its location within the State of North Carolina is <br />highlighted in orange in Figure 1. Orange County is part of the 4 county Durham-Chapel Hill <br />Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Durham-Chapel Hill MSA had a population of 551,237 in <br />2015 and is part of the greater 11 county Raleigh-Durham Combined Statistical Area which had <br />a population of 1,271,381 in 2015. Figure 2 offers a zoomed in view of Orange County along <br />with the different cities contained within Orange County and the surrounding counties. <br /> <br />Figure 1. Location of Orange County within the State of North Carolina <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />40