About Holly Springs

Holly Springs is a somewhat small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 12,239 people and just one neighborhood, Holly Springs is the 76th largest community in North Carolina.

Holly Springs has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Holly Springs, where the median household income is $65,375.

Holly Springs is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Holly Springs is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Holly Springs who work in management occupations (14.74%), office and administrative support jobs (13.46%), and sales jobs (12.28%).

Also of interest is that Holly Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One downside of living in Holly Springs is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Holly Springs, the average commute to work is 32.09 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

For most residents of Holly Springs, getting to work requires a car. In fact, 98.5% of people in Holly Springs drive alone to work on most days, making Holly Springs a very car-oriented town. In general, car-oriented communities tend to emphasize streets, highways, and ease of parking, often to the detriment of walkability. Strip centers are a feature of Holly Springs's landscape.

Being a small town, Holly Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Holly Springs Information and Demographics

The education level of Holly Springs citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 42.90% of adults in Holly Springs have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Holly Springs in 2000 was $26,688, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,752 for a family of four. However, Holly Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Holly Springs is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Holly Springs home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Holly Springs is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Holly Springs include German, English, Irish, Italian, Scotch-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Holly Springs is English. Some people also speak Spanish.