Holly Springs, North Carolina

Holly Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Holly Springs added 7,100 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +17.1%. In the latest year it moved by +2,116. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 13th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Holly Springs is 3.3 times that size.

Holly Springs covers 19.44 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 2,504 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Holly Springs is denser than the typical town.

What county Holly Springs is in

All of Holly Springs's residents live in Wake County, which had 1,232,444 residents in 2024. Holly Springs holds 3.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Holly Springs

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Holly Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27539, 27540. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Holly Springs is

The Census internal point of Holly Springs is at 35.653300, -78.840800. Raleigh, the capital, is 14.3 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Apex, NC (75,977 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cary, NC, 8.9 miles away.

Daylight in Holly Springs

At 35.65° N, Holly Springs gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Holly Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Fuquay-Varina, 5.4 miles away, with 46,317 people.