It is classified as a community or populated place (Class Code U6) located at latitude 42.088 and longitude -71.641 and the elevation is 266 feet (81 m).

The town meeting in 1885 set aside North Uxbridge as a "special district", since its population had exceeded 1000 people.

The village is no longer recognized as a separate census-designated place but is considered part of Uxbridge by the US Census bureau.

Major employers include the local school district, and a commercial plastics manufacturing company in the former Rivulet mill.

The former North Uxbridge elementary school was also the Virginia Blanchard Pre-K Center, and is a historic building.

[6] Blanchard's quarry supplied Boston's reconstruction after its 1872 fire and sold New York City its curbstones.

[6] In the late 20th century, the former James Whitin Estate, also known as "GrayRock", served as an exclusive substance abuse treatment facility.