Some of the cities, towns, and places in Chatham County are Apex, Baldwin, Bear Creek, Bells, Bennett, Bonlee, Briar Chapel, Brickhaven, Bynum, Cape Fear, Carbonton, Carolina Meadows, Cary, Center, Chapel Hill, Corinth, Crutchfield Crossroads, Farmville, Farrington, Fearrington Village, Goldston, Governors Club, Governors Village, Gulf, Harper's Crossroads, Haywood, Lockville, Moncure, Pittsboro, Seaforth, Siler City, Silk Hope, Wilsonville
Chatham County (locally CHAT-əm) is a county located in the Piedmont area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is also the location of the geographic center of North Carolina, northwest of Sanford. As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,285. Its county seat is Pittsboro.Chatham County is part of the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 2,043,867 as of 2020 census.