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Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina Town Profile

Chapel Hill in Orange County, North Carolina, is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), the oldest state-supported university in the United States.

Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh make up the three vertices of the "Triangle", a name which originally referred to the universities of UNC, Duke, and NC State, and now is commonly used to refer to this region of North Carolina.

Chapel Hill is located in the southeast corner of Orange County, with some of its boundaries extending into Durham County to the east and Chatham County to the south.

Chapel Hill, or at least the town center, indeed sits atop a hill - originally called New Hope Chapel Hill after the chapel that was once located there. The town was founded in 1819 to serve the University of North Carolina. The town of Chapel Hill was chartered in 1851, and its main street, Franklin Street, was named in memory of Benjamin Franklin.

Residents of Chapel Hill have made public education a priority, resulting in Chapel Hill being widely recognized for the quality of its school system. Chapel Hill's two high schools, East Chapel Hill High and Chapel Hill High, are rated as the 105th and 231st best high schools in the U.S. by Newsweek, respectively.

Chapel Hill's Population: 51,519
Median Family Income: $88,000
Median Age: 30.4 years

Cindy Brudvik Davis, RE/MAX Southern Advantage, a full service real estate agent in Pittsboro, Chatham County, will work on your behalf to actualize your real estate and home ownership goals in the following NC Triangle towns and communities:

Apex (Chatham and Wake Counties)

Carrboro (Orange County)

Cary (Chatham and Wake Counties)

Chapel Hill (Chatham and Orange Counties)

Fearrington Village (Pittsboro in NE Chatham County)

Governor's Club (Chapel Hill, Chatham County)

Graham (Southern Alamance County)

Holly Springs (Wake County)

Morrisville (Wake County)

Pittsboro (Chatham County)

Raleigh and North Raleigh (Wake County)

RTP (Research Triangle Park)