Fearrington Village, North Carolina

Fearrington Village is located in northeastern Chatham County. U.S. Routes 15 and 501 form the northwestern edge of the community, leading north to Chapel Hill and south to Pittsboro, the Chatham County seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.32%, is water. ==Demographics==

2020 census As of the 2020 census, Fearrington Village had a population of 2,557. The median age was 73.9 years. 2.3% of residents were under the age of 18 and 78.2% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 73.0 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 71.7 males age 18 and over. There were 1,493 households in Fearrington Village, including 787 families. Of these households, 5.2% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 51.2% were married-couple households, 8.3% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 36.8% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 39.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 33.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. ==History==

The community began in 1974 when R.B. Fitch and his late wife Jenny purchased the two-century old dairy farm from Jesse Fearrington. He had inherited the 640 acre property, originally purchased for 100 shillings in 1786 from John Oldham by his great-great-great-grandfather, William Cole. Located midway between Chapel Hill and Pittsboro along U.S. 15-501 in Chatham County, Fearrington currently occupies about . The Fitches aimed to recreate the smaller villages of England and modeled the Fearrington Village Center after those hamlets long before the term "mixed-use community" had been popularized. The Fearrington House Country Inn is one of only two AAA five-diamond facilities in the state, earning the Five Diamond designation 15 years in a row, more times than any other accommodation in the Carolinas. The Inn is also North Carolina's only five-star hotel, according to Mobil Travel Guide's annual rankings. Belted Galloway cows, the village's iconic mascot, were added to the farm in 1983. ==References==