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Chapel Hill population

59,568people · latest figure

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Chapel Hill has a population of 59,568, making it the 695th largest place we list in United States. It is in North Carolina.

Chapel Hill holds under a tenth of one per cent of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 148 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 47,529, a rise of 25%.

59,568
population
47,529
in 2005
+25.3%
since 2005
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.

Chapel Hill is in North Carolina, which has 590 recorded places.

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
Saint Clair ShoresMichigan59,715
SpringfieldOhio59,680
Great FallsMontana59,638
Huntington ParkCalifornia59,430
LancasterPennsylvania59,339
Coconut CreekFlorida59,302

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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.