Orange County, established on March 31, 1752, has a population of 144,946 and a total employment of 70,946 (48.9%). It is part of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is home to almost 2 million residents.<\/p>\n
The county seat is Hillsborough, located about 40 miles northwest of NC State’s main campus.<\/p>\n
The county\u2019s most profitable agricultural product is poultry\/eggs, while the largest product by acreage is forage land for grain production. By total number, the largest livestock produced is egg-laying chickens.<\/span><\/p>\n The largest manufacturer is General Electric, which manufactures lighting panels. GE is the 10th largest employers and has almost 1,000 workers.<\/span><\/p>\n Orange County is served by Durham Technical Community College’s Orange County campus and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the second largest institution in the UNC system and the co-flagship of the system with NC State. The UNC System general administration, which oversees operations at all 17 member institutions, is located in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-233","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/county"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/233\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}