Governors Village, North Carolina

The Governors Village is a 450 acre New Urbanism neighborhood and census-designated place (CDP) in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States, with an address of Chapel Hill. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 1,512.

Governors Village consists of four residential home neighborhoods (Governors Village, Governors Park, Governors Forest, Governors Lake), 160 townhomes (Governors Village and Governors Lake Townes), 242 apartments (Camden Governors Village), and multiple commercial buildings.

Governors Village is located directly across the street from the main entrance to Governors Club, a 1,600 acre gated community with a 27-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course with over 1,200 homes.

Recreation
The community has numerous parks, sidewalks and walking trails including a small community lake. In addition, the community is located just a few miles from Jordan Lake, a large recreation lake.

Awards
Based on its community and volunteer activities Governors Village was named "Community of the Year" for 2009 by the North Carolina Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (Mid-sized Mixed-Use division).

Business district
The original Governors Village Shopping Center opened in 2000 with the opening of the grocery store. That shopping center now includes a dry cleaner, nail salon, and food take out shops. Shortly thereafter, a bank branch opened at the main entrance to Governors Village.

In 2005, a second shopping center opened in Governors Village featuring several restaurants, a veterinarian, and dentist's office. In 2012, The Commons @ Governors Village, another commercial retail center, opened housing the offices of a realty firm, an independent pharmacy, and a construction firm, with an insurance office opening an office in 2016. In 2017 a new commercial building opened with more commercial space opening in the future.

2020 census
''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''