Durham County
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- Population
- 332,353
- Area
- 287.55 sq mi (744.74 km²), 10.32 sq mi water
- Median age
- 36.1
- Households
- 141,847
- Persons per household
- 2.3
- Median household income
- $82,316
- Median house value
- $389,400
Demographics: 2020–2024 ACS
Today
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Chance Showers And Thunderstorms60% precip
Tonight
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Coastal Review
Published July 31‘Peering into the black box of nutrition’: Study tracks diets
Dr. Rachel Noble of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences and colleagues used technology developed to track COVID-19 in municipal wastewater to now track populations’ dietary habits so their nutritional health may be studied and improved.