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<br />4 <br /> <br />71% <br />11% <br />1% <br />7% <br />0% <br />2% <br />8% <br />Race and Ethnicity <br />White alone <br />Black or African American <br />alone <br />American Indian and Alaska <br />Native alone <br />Asian alone <br />Native Hawaiian and Other <br />Pacific Islander alone <br />Two or More Races <br />Hispanic or Latino <br />Table 1: Orange County General Population Compared to Peer Counties and NC1 <br /> <br />People <br /> <br />Orange <br />County <br />Brunswick County <br />(Peer County) <br />New Hanover <br />County <br />(Peer County) <br /> <br />North <br />Carolina <br />Population, 2014 <br />estimate <br />140,420 118,836 216,298 9,943,964 <br />Population, % change <br />(April 2010 to July 2014) <br />5.0% 10.6% 6.7% 4.3% <br />Persons under 5 (2014) 4.7% 4.5% 5.3% 6.1% <br />Persons under 18 (2014) 20.4% 17.2% 19.4% 23.0% <br />Persons 65 and over <br />(2014) <br />11.2% 27.0% 15.8% 14.7% <br />Female Persons (2014) 52.2% 51.4% 52.0 51.3% <br /> <br />In terms of where people reside, according to the 2010 Census, 71.5% of Orange County residents live in <br />the southern “urban” areas of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, while the remaining 28.5% live throughout the <br />rural areas of the County.2 <br /> <br />The largest minorities differ in the three main municipalities. Black residents are the largest group of <br />minorities in Hillsborough making up 30%; in Carrboro the largest group is Hispanic or Latino residents <br />making up 14%; and in Chapel Hill the largest minority group is Asian making up 12%.3 Figures 2 and 3 <br />provide a representation of the county’s race and ethnicity, and age breakdown. <br /> <br />Figure 2: Orange County Race & Ethnicity 4 Figure 3: Orange County Age5 <br /> <br /> <br />