Carrboro, North Carolina

Carrboro population, 2020 to 2024

Carrboro lost 202 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.9%. In the latest year it moved by -174. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 136th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Carrboro is 1.4 times that size.

Carrboro covers 6.48 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 3,253 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Carrboro is denser than the typical town.

What county Carrboro is in

All of Carrboro's residents live in Orange County, which had 152,877 residents in 2024. Carrboro holds 13.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Carrboro

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Carrboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27510, 27516. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Carrboro is

The Census internal point of Carrboro is at 35.926200, -79.087000. Raleigh, the capital, is 27.0 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chapel Hill, NC (64,028 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Durham, NC, 11.1 miles away.

Daylight in Carrboro

At 35.93° N, Carrboro gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carrboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Chapel Hill, 2.6 miles away, with 64,028 people.