Carrboro North Carolina

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Carrboro NC, settled in 1882 around a railroad spur of UNC, was first known as West End because of its geographical location west of Chapel Hill. Incorporated in 1911 as Venable, the town made its final name change two years later in honor of Julian Shakespeare Carr, owner of the local textile mill. For the first fifty years after its incorporation, Carrboro NC remained a small mill town with a slow, steady pace of growth. In 1960, approximately 2000 people lived in the town. By the year 2000, the town's population had grown to over 16,000 residents.

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The 2000 population of Carrboro was 16,782. This is a 45 percent increase from 1990, the highest percentage increase in Orange county. Carrboro added over 5,200 people to its population between 1990 and 2000. About 62 percent of the people that were added to Orange county in the 1990s were added in either Carrboro or Chapel Hill. The following pages will highlight important demographic changes that have taken place over the past decade.

Carrboro NC continues to be mostly a community consisting of rental units as 68 percent of the housing stock is renter occupied. However, in the last ten years owner occupied housing has increased at a rate three times faster than that of rental housing. Rental housing increased 22 percent in the 1990s while owner occupied housing jumped 74 percent. In 1990, owner occupied housing accounted for 22.4 percent of the housing stock and in 2000 it accounted for 32 percent. In 1980, owner occupied housing only comprised 21.2 percent of the housing stock.
Carrboro continues to have the highest population density in the state. Density increased from 2,584 persons/square mile in 1990 to 3,753 persons/square mile in 2000.

The median cost of an owner-occupied housing unit in Carrboro in 2000 was $143,242. This is up from $93,008 in 1990, a 54 percent increase (Source: AnySite Technologies, LLC, 2000).

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