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Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro ZIP codes, ranked by the ZipVitals Score
Every Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro ZIP code (ZCTA) with a ZipVitals Score, ranked within the metro — descriptive of documented conditions, never a verdict on the people who live there.
Data release 202627 ZIP codes in this ranking
- 89827517in Chapel Hill · 29,564 residents68.46
- 1,51927713in Durham · 59,197 residents66.25
- 1,80427510in Carrboro · 13,868 residents65.51
- 1,93127516in Chapel Hill · 47,358 residents65.18
- 2,30727312in Pittsboro · 23,341 residents64.29
- 2,94527514in Chapel Hill · 32,951 residents63.05
- 3,08327278in Hillsborough · 27,925 residents62.79
- 3,84827705in Durham · 49,923 residents61.44
- 4,49427712in Durham · 24,299 residents60.48
- 4,52127707in Durham · 51,274 residents60.45
- 5,38027243in Efland · 5,677 residents59.28
- 5,38227559in Moncure · 2,312 residents59.28
- 6,68027703in Durham · 63,458 residents57.66
- 6,90127231in Cedar Grove · 2,331 residents57.39
- 6,99927503in Bahama · 5,374 residents57.28
- 8,16927541in Hurdle Mills · 3,399 residents56.11
- 8,46127572in Rougemont · 6,131 residents55.84
- 10,30627252in Goldston · 1,425 residents54.31
- 12,07527701in Durham · 24,793 residents53.01
- 12,52627208in Bennett · 1,979 residents52.68
- 12,75127583in Timberlake · 7,242 residents52.51
- 12,98327343in Semora · 1,232 residents52.35
- 13,43427207in Bear Creek · 4,367 residents52.01
- 15,75927704in Durham · 40,102 residents50.35
- 17,14327574in Roxboro · 14,928 residents49.37
- 25,35527573in Roxboro · 11,537 residents41.84
- 25,79627344in Siler City · 19,198 residents41.32
How this ranking works
Ranks are each ZIP code’s position in the full national ZipVitals Score ranking, so the numbers jump — this metro holds 27 of the tens of thousands of scored US ZIP codes — and they never change with the sort direction; the rank a ZIP carries here is the rank it carries everywhere on this site. A ZIP whose data is too thin to score is held out entirely rather than filled from county or metro figures.
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A high score describes favorable documented conditions — never a claim about residents. Where ZIP codes score low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.