Chapel Hill, NC
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Chapel Hill, NC: 3 USPS ZIPs, population 91,595. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
U.S. Census Bureau, SimpleMaps US ZIP Code Database, delivery-area ZIP coverage
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet CHAPEL-HILL-NC · Chapel Hill, NC 3 ZIPs · 91,595 pop · #3154/25278 · Orange County
INC-HIGH · RANK-TOP · ABOVE-PEER · BOOK-FEW · OWN-LOW · POP-SMALL · SPREAD-MOD · HOME-HIGH
- INC-HIGH $109,304
- RANK-TOP #3154/25278
- ABOVE-PEER over Hillsborough
- BOOK-FEW 3 ZIPs
- OWN-LOW 62% owners
- POP-SMALL 91,595
- SPREAD-MOD 27514→27517
- HOME-HIGH $613,067
Nearest income peer: Hillsborough, NC ( $3,417 income $)
Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Chapel Hill
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Chapel Hill on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Carrboro · lowest
Carrboro · lowest
$61,837 median HH income
- Cedar Grove · near
Cedar Grove · near
$64,471 median HH income
- Efland · near
Efland · near
$84,348 median HH income
- Hillsborough · near
Hillsborough · near
$105,887 median HH income
- Chapel Hill · this city · highest
Chapel Hill · this city · highest
$109,304 median HH income
What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.
National city placement
According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Chapel Hill, NC sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a small-city population base, across a handful of delivery areas.
- Top 12%
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 91,595
- city population (Census)
- 3
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $109,304
- avg ZIP median income
Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.
High-income footprint on only 3 ZIPs: the city page and the ZIP page nearly coincide. Headline income $109,304 and home value $613,067 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 75.5%.
Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (62.2%) for this income tier, rent $1,609 may matter more than the home-value average.
Within North Carolina, Alexander is the closest lower-income city and Fuquay Varina the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Chapel Hill.
Within-city ZIP comparison
Where the ZIP codes inside Chapel Hill differ
The most material local contrast is hardship rather than the city-wide income average. Poverty is 5.6% in ZIP 27517 and 15.8% in 27516. That spread is why the ZIP detail pages are more useful than a single city figure for comparing household conditions.
- Income high-to-low ratio
- 1.4×
- Home-value high-to-low ratio
- 1.2×
- Poverty-rate spread
- 10.2 points
27514 to 27517
27516 to 27514
27517 to 27516
Derived from the published ACS 2023 ZIP-level records shown on this site. A high-to-low ratio compares the highest and lowest available ZIP values; it is not a score or forecast.
Population concentration
Chapel Hill residents split across a short ZIP set
No ZIP owns Chapel Hill: the largest, 27516, is only about 39% of 91,595 residents across 3 codes. Compare at least two ZIPs before treating the city roll-up as a neighborhood answer.
Census ZBP business roll-up
Employer-heavy short list in Chapel Hill
Citywide ZBP: 2,577 establishments, 40,451 employees , annual payroll $2,458,593k (~28 establishments per 1,000 residents) across 3 of 3 ZIPs. Peak business ZIP 27514 (994 units) ; leading NAICS Professional, scientific, and technical services (500) · also Health care and social assistance · Accommodation and food services .
ZIP Codes in Chapel Hill, NC
These ZIP codes sit in Orange County, which covers 7 ZIP codes in all; 3 of them fall in Chapel Hill. See the Orange County roll-up →
No other city sharing Orange County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Chapel Hill. Hillsborough, Carrboro and Efland sit below it, so a household comparing this county on income alone starts here. Carrboro marks the far end of that range at $61,837, 43% below Chapel Hill.
Side-by-side: Compare 27516 vs 27514 →
Chapel Hill roll-ups here are for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial or relocation advice. ACS and Census ZBP figures are estimates; confirm the current table against Census before a money or move decision involving Chapel Hill, .