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City of Durham, Durham County, North Carolina Town Profile

Durham is the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina, and is the fourth-largest city in North Carolina by population. Photo of the Durham Arts Council located in Durham, North Carolina

Whether you know of Durham as the "City of Medicine" or the "Bull City", it's easy to see why so many residents and businesses call Durham home. Durham boasts over 300 restaurants, more than 40 annual festivals, Duke and North Carolina Central universities, Durham Bulls Triple-A baseball, art and science museums, and world-class medical facilities.

Durham was nick-named the "Bull City" in the late 1800s when the Blackwell Tobacco Company named its product "Bull" Durham Tobacco. The "Bull City" prospered as a manufacturing hub for the tobacco industry and textiles for many decades, but has since transformed itself into a place where shopping thrives and high-tech industry flourishes with upscale housing in the same classic buildings where tobacco giants American Tobacco and Liggett-Meyers once made this city their industrial home.

With the birth of the Research Triangle Park (currently a 7,000 acre special county research and production district with more than 140 major research companies employing 39,000) in the 1950s, Durham began to take on a new look that has evolved into a global center for information technology, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medicine. The City of Durham is known as the "City of Medicine", with healthcare as a major industry including more than 300 medical and health-related companies and medical practices.

Major highways adjacent to Durham are: I-40, I-85, US 15/501, NC-54, NC-55, NC-751, and NC-147 (The Durham Highway).

Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) is located 11 miles from downtown Durham.

City of Durham Population: 215,287 (2007 estimate)
Durham County Population: 254,902 (2007 estimate)
Median Age: 31 years (City of Durham), 34.1 years (Durham County)
City of Durham Property Tax Rate: $0.6180/$100
Durham County Property Tax Rate: $0.8340/$100
Average Annual Rainfall: 41.3 inches

Forbes ranked the City of Durham #7 "Best Place for Business and Careers" in 2007.

On December 1, 2007, the City of Durham celebrated its 25th consecutive year of recognition as a national "Tree City USA" from the National Arbor Day Foundation (NADF).

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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)