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Orange County
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county in North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- Named after
- Unknown; possibly William V of Orange or William of Orange
- Seat
- Hillsborough
- Largest community
- Chapel Hill
- Total
- 400.96 sq mi (1,038.5 km )
- Land
- 397.56 sq mi (1,029.7 km )
- Water
- 3.40 sq mi (8.8 km ) 0.85%
- Estimate 2025
- 152,498
- Density
- 374.02/sq mi (144.41/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- orangecountync .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- William V, Prince of Orange
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Province of North Carolina
- Contains
- Hillsborough
- Capital
- Hillsborough
- Population
- 148696
- Area
- 1039
- Shares border with
- Durham County
- Official website
- www.orangecountync.gov
- Image
- Orange County Courthouse NC.jpg
- Households
- 53222
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- inception
- 1752-01-01
- Commons category
- Orange County, North Carolina
- topic's main category
- Category:Orange County, North Carolina
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Orange County, North Carolina
- different from
- Orange County
- water as percent of area
- 0.9
- native label
- Orange County
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Orange County, North Carolina
- per capita income
- 42872
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Encyclopedic overview
Orange County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 148,696. Its county seat is Hillsborough. Orange County is included in the Durham–Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh–Durham–Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orange County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.