For businesses in Durham, NC, AnSer offers live answering and message taking through its nationwide service, including after-hours and overflow call handling. Use the local context below when discussing your hours, call instructions and language requirements with our team.
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Durham city is a Census place in NC. Its published county relationships are Durham County, North Carolina; Orange County, North Carolina; Wake County, North Carolina. Because it spans multiple counties, county-based routing needs the service address, not just the city name.
Geography source: 2025 Census county relationships; 2025 Gazetteer. These boundaries do not establish an AnSer office or your business’s service territory.
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Durham city has an estimated 273,578 residents aged five and over in the 2020–2024 ACS. The table below breaks down home-language categories for this place; it does not measure your business’s callers.
Reported local estimates to compare with your caller records in Durham: Spanish: 35,377 ±1,349; Other Indo-European languages: 4,907 ±906; Other and unspecified languages: 4,228 ±1,221. These are the largest point estimates among non-English home-language categories whose estimates exceed their margins of error. Differences have not been tested for statistical significance. Identify the actual caller language within grouped categories before discussing coverage.
| Language spoken at home | Estimated residents | Margin of error (±) |
|---|---|---|
| All residents aged 5 and over | 273,578 | 490 |
| Speak only English | 216,295 | 1,768 |
| Spanish | 35,377 | 1,349 |
| French, Haitian, or Cajun | 1,230 | 356 |
| German or other West Germanic languages | 786 | 287 |
| Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages | 613 | 188 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 4,907 | 906 |
| Korean | 485 | 176 |
| Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) | 3,962 | 584 |
| Vietnamese | 793 | 455 |
| Tagalog (including Filipino) | 1,292 | 409 |
| Other Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,741 | 594 |
| Arabic | 869 | 325 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 4,228 | 1,221 |
Estimates have uncertainty; home language does not establish preferred call language or provider capabilities. Read the data definitions, limitations and planning method.
Source: Census table C16001 for Durham.
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