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Cary

Cary is a town in Wake, Chatham, and Durham counties in the U.S.

Cary
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The place

Cary is a town in Wake, Chatham, and Durham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is part of the Raleigh-Cary, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the 2020 census, its population was 174,721, making it the seventh-most populous municipality in North Carolina, and the 146th-most populous in the United States. In 2023, the town's population had increased to 180,010.

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Getting to Cary

Airports
Raleigh-Durham (RDU), 11 km · Piedmont Triad (GSO), 107 km · Charlotte Douglas (CLT), 202 km
  • Greensboro → Cary
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · $9–13
  • Charlotte → Cary
    197 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · $20–28
  • Richmond → Cary
    229 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · $22–30
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cary

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cary. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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Next door to Cary

Cary is 14 km from West Raleigh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.