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About Roxboro
City in North Carolina, United StatesRoxboro is a city in and the county seat of Person County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 8,134 at the 2020 census. The city is 30 miles (48 km) north of Durham and is a part of the four-county Durham–Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 649,903 as of the 2020 Census. The Durham–Chapel Hill MSA is a part of the larger Raleigh–Durham–Cary Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 2,043,867 as of the 2020 Census.
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Housing in Roxboro
The typical Roxboro home is worth about $220,000, up 5.4% in a year, 34% below the North Carolina typical home.
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Safety in Roxboro
Safety Grade D-
Roxboro reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 97% report less.
Schools in Roxboro
All Roxboro schools →School Grade C+
The public schools Roxboro’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 64% of North Carolina’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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