Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Chapel Hill population, 2020 to 2024

Chapel Hill added 7,011 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.3%. In the latest year it moved by +930. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 23rd; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Chapel Hill is 4.4 times that size.

Chapel Hill covers 21.70 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 2,951 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Chapel Hill is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Chapel Hill spans

Chapel Hill crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 64,028 residents as follows; Orange County holds 95.4% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chapel Hill

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Chapel Hill by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27514, 27516, 27517, 27599. 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 Chapel Hill is

The Census internal point of Chapel Hill is at 35.928300, -79.041400. Raleigh, the capital, is 24.8 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Durham, NC (301,870 people), 8.7 miles away.

Daylight in Chapel Hill

At 35.93° N, Chapel Hill 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 Chapel Hill

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Carrboro, 2.6 miles away, with 21,079 people.