Fearrington VillageNC
A town of 2,356.
Is Fearrington Village a good place to live?
Fearrington Village’s best subject grade is an A for health; its weakest is a D for cost of living. Fearrington Village’s density of trails is 1.1 miles per square mile, above both the North Carolina town median (0.2) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). Fearrington Village has 3 places on the National Register. Fearrington Village has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Fearrington Village stand out
Where Fearrington Village beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Fearrington Village for work
Where Fearrington Village’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Fearrington Village grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Carolina), ordered by how far Fearrington Village is from typical.
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Kenan Memorial Stadium and 24 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Fearrington Village. Close and well known come first.
8 mi Stadium & arenaKenan Memorial Stadium
20 mi Stadium & arenaLenovo Center
20 mi Stadium & arenaCarter–Finley Stadium
7 mi Stadium & arenaDean Smith Center
18 mi Stadium & arenaWakeMed Soccer Park
17 mi LandmarkBennett Place State Historic SitePhoto credits
Kenan Memorial Stadium: Yeungb, CC BY 3.0 · Lenovo Center: Edward T. Funkhouser, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Carter–Finley Stadium: SMaloney, CC BY 3.0 · Dean Smith Center: No machine-readable author provided. Snargle~commonswiki assumed (based on copyr, Public domain · WakeMed Soccer Park: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Bennett Place State Historic Site: Ildar Sagdejev (Specious), CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Fearrington Village: who provides what
Fearrington Village is unincorporated, so Chatham County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Fearrington Village.
A smaller share of adults feel lonely in Fearrington Village than in most of North Carolina or the rest of the country
11% of adults report frequent physical distress in Fearrington Village, and of the 290 North Carolina towns we compare, none has a lower share of adults who report frequent mental distress than Fearrington Village. In Fearrington Village, 14% of adults say their health is fair or poor, against 19% in North Carolina’s towns and 19% across U.S. towns. The town beats the North Carolina average on 22 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 6.
| Fearrington Village | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 5% | 14% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 36% | 35% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 7.6% | 17% | 17% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 7.2% | 15% | 16% |
| What stands out | Fearrington Village | NC |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 2.4% | 12.2% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 1.7% | 8.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 21.2% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With only 0.6 jobs per working resident, most people in Fearrington Village work out of town
The typical journey to work in Fearrington Village is 28 minutes. Just 2% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs locally rose by 79, to 542. Among residents locally, 5.5% live below the poverty line.
| Fearrington Village | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 5.5% | 13% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.3% | 6.8% | 8% |
| Median household income | $86,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Fearrington Village’s year
The range runs from 30° on a January night to 90° on a July afternoon, with about 3 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Moderate risk in Fearrington Village, with inland flooding at the top
FEMA expects less storm and flood damage in Fearrington Village than in 53% of U.S. communities. Expected losses in Fearrington Village break down as 67% from inland flooding and 12% from tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Fearrington Village, 1.4% of the land is conserved
1.9 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. Fearrington Village has one park or preserve, 15 acres in all.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Camden Park | 0.8 mi | 15 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Fearrington Village stands out in North Carolina and nationally, with the median rent higher than most
On the market in Fearrington Village: a median 7 days to sell. The median sale price was $508,000 in May 2026. For households locally, the share who own their home is 75%.
| Fearrington Village | North Carolina towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $3,501 a month | $1,085 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 75% | 67% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Fearrington Village
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Fearrington Village
About 5 of every 100 Fearrington Village residents are enrolled in college, about the same as North Carolina.
About Fearrington Village
Census-designated place in North Carolina, United States
Fearrington Village is a residential development and census-designated place (CDP) in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,339 at the 2010 census, up from 903 in 2000. The 2020 census counted 2,557 residents. Its name is phonetically pronounced FAIR-ington, not FEAR-ington as the spelling might indicate. The CDP occupies what was formerly the area of the unincorporated community of Farrington. It is a mixed-use community located on farmland dating back to the 18th century in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The community is located about 15 minutes from Chapel Hill, a half-hour from Durham and 45 minutes from Raleigh.
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- Area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 344 ft
Questions about Fearrington Village
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Fearrington Village, NC expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $473,000, 42% above the North Carolina typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.