Which ZIP code in Orange County has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?

27514 (Chapel Hill), at 25.7%, among 11 ZIP codes with at least 1,000 residents.

Why are some ZIP codes missing?

ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents are left out because their survey estimates swing too much to rank, and so are ZIP codes where the Census Bureau did not publish this figure.

ZIP codes with the most new movers in Orange County, NC

These are the 11 ZIP codes in Orange County with the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year, out of 11 with at least 1,000 residents. 27514 (Chapel Hill, 25.7%), 27510 (Carrboro, 23.2%) and 27705 (Durham, 20.5%) lead the list. There is no single "best" ZIP code in Orange County; the right one depends on who you want to reach, so the same ZIP codes are ranked several ways below.

ZIP codes with the most new movers in Orange County

Rank	ZIP	Mailing city	Moved in the past year	Residents	Households	Residential mailboxes
1	27514	Chapel Hill	25.7%	32,951	10,347	12,912
2	27510	Carrboro	23.2%	13,868	7,038	7,539
3	27705	Durham	20.5%	49,923	22,678	24,444
4	27516	Chapel Hill	16.5%	47,358	17,503	18,931
5	27517	Chapel Hill	14.8%	29,564	12,608	14,923
6	27302	Mebane	10.5%	35,418	14,223	16,678
7	27278	Hillsborough	10.4%	27,925	11,533	12,881
8	27572	Rougemont	6.8%	6,131	2,489	3,049
9	27231	Cedar Grove	5.8%	2,331	991	923
10	27541	Hurdle Mills	5.0%	3,399	1,438	1,736
11	27243	Efland	4.7%	5,677	2,138	1,928

How we ranked them

Ranked by the share of residents (age 1 and over) who lived in a different home a year earlier (ACS Data Profile, 2020–2024). No margin of error is published for this share in our files. ZIP codes need at least 1,000 residents to be ranked; 11 of 12 qualify.

Which of these to mail, and why

New residents are still choosing a dentist, a gym, a pizza place and a lawn service. ZIP codes with high turnover give a welcome offer more people to work on each year.

The top five ZIP codes on this list hold 70,174 households, on 124 carrier routes with 78,749 residential mailboxes. Open any of them on the route map to see each carrier route's own figures before you choose.

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Frequently asked questions

Which ZIP code in Orange County has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?: 27514 (Chapel Hill), at 25.7%, among 11 ZIP codes with at least 1,000 residents.
How is this ranking calculated?: Ranked by the share of residents (age 1 and over) who lived in a different home a year earlier (ACS Data Profile, 2020–2024). No margin of error is published for this share in our files.
Why are some ZIP codes missing?: ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents are left out because their survey estimates swing too much to rank, and so are ZIP codes where the Census Bureau did not publish this figure.

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