Hillsborough, North Carolina

Hillsborough population, 2020 to 2024

Hillsborough added 116 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by -33. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 120th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Hillsborough is 67% of it.

Hillsborough covers 5.76 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,697 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Hillsborough is denser than the typical town.

What county Hillsborough is in

All of Hillsborough's residents live in Orange County, which had 152,877 residents in 2024. Hillsborough holds 6.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hillsborough

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hillsborough by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27278. 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 Hillsborough is

The Census internal point of Hillsborough is at 36.077900, -79.098000. Raleigh, the capital, is 32.9 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mebane, NC (20,654 people), 10.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Durham, NC, 13.1 miles away.

Daylight in Hillsborough

At 36.08° N, Hillsborough gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hillsborough

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Mebane, 10.0 miles away, with 20,654 people.