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20,261 people live in this town, settled in 1855.
Plenty to like here, at a price. Taken together, its subjects give Holly Springs an A overall, better than 86% of U.S. towns. The ranking puts it 12th of 258 in Georgia. It does especially well on safety: it reports less crime per resident than 93% of U.S. towns. What counts against it is cost of living (D): the typical home is worth about $430K, 4.8 years of the Atlanta metro’s $90K median household income. Only 3 of the 149 Georgia towns we compare have a lower rate of reported violence than Holly Springs. Only 8 of Georgia’s 367 towns score higher on incomes.
Figures: FBI crime data, 2025 · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24.
Where Holly Springs beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Holly Springs Elementary School | PK–5 | 831 |
| Lyndon Academy | PK–12 | 163 |
| Compass Prep Academy | K–12 | 101 |
9,189 counted in 2010 and 16,213 in 2020; an estimated 20,261 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 23.4% since 2020, after 76.4% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Holly Springs is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 95% of comparable towns) to D for cost of living (better than 15%), so the A overall blends very different results.
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Census counts: 251 in 1910, 16,213 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 2015 and 3 maps from 1961 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Holly Springs. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi Stadium & arenaMercedes-Benz Stadium
Big draw32 mi MountainStone Mountain
19 mi Stadium & arenaTruist Park
Big draw31 mi LakeLake Lanier
13 mi MuseumChattahoochee Nature Center
Big draw28 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over GeorgiaMercedes-Benz Stadium: Atlanta Falcons, CC BY 3.0 · Stone Mountain: KyleAndMelissa22, Public domain · Truist Park: Thechased at English Wikipedia, CC BY 4.0 · Lake Lanier: http://www.terraprints.com, CC BY 2.5 · Chattahoochee Nature Center: muffinn from Worcester, UK, CC BY 2.0 · Six Flags Over Georgia: hagerman, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Holly Springs, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Holly Springs.
Holly Springs owes part of its health edge to its incomes, has seen reported crime fall by a fifth or more and has hotter summers than most of the country, though not than most of Georgia.
Reported crimes fell from 91 to 74 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings. Violent crime is rare: 0 reported in 2025, 0 per 1,000 residents.
Holly Springs’ property offense rate stands at 3.5 per 1,000 residents, below both the Georgia town median (14.7) and the median of U.S. towns (9.9). Police in Holly Springs reported no violent crime.
| Holly Springs | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 3.5 per 1,000 residents | 14.7 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 2.2 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Its A for schools comes with a D for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $430K.
Two of its 3 schools are shown below, with the reason for each. The Cherokee County school district runs its public schools. Enrollment at Holly Springs’s public school: 831 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Springs Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 831 | A− |
| Lyndon Academy PrivateLargest high schoolGrades PK–12 | Grades PK–12 | 163 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within GA on state tests and graduation
Jobs based here grew from 2,179 in 2013 to 4,202.
The top destinations are Atlanta (7%), Alpharetta (7%) and Canton (7%). Just 3% of Holly Springs’s working residents have a job in town. Jobs based in Holly Springs grew to 4,202 in 2023, 2,023 more than in 2013. Holly Springs’ median household income stands at $114,000, above both Georgia’s towns ($63,000) and U.S. towns ($80,000).
| Holly Springs | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 23% | 9.2% | 11% |
| Median household income | $114,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 3.9% | 15% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
68.9% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 52.4% across Georgia. The median property tax bill is $3,740, against $2,341 across Georgia, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Holly Springs: three quarters of households live in a home they own. The typical home value locally is about $430,000, down 1.5% in a year, 31% above the Georgia typical home. The median rent here is $1,850 a month.
| Holly Springs | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,850 a month | $1,152 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 75% | 58% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Against the 6,599 U.S. towns with household incomes like Holly Springs’s, it is less healthy than 58%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Among adults in Holly Springs, 31% have high blood pressure. Of 32 CDC measures, Holly Springs beats the Georgia average on 13 and trails it on 2.
| Holly Springs | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 14% | 16% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.8% | 14% | 12% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 38% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 75% | 79% | 79% |
| What stands out | Holly Springs | GA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.5% | 14.5% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.4% | 17.7% |
| More binge drinkers | 18.5% | 14.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Holly Springs after 2 declared disasters, most recently in 2009. Compared with 69% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage locally is lower. 50% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 25%.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
July afternoons average 88.1°: hotter than most of the country, but cooler than 92% of Georgia places with climate records; January nights average 31.6°.
The January low for Holly Springs comes to 32°F. About 1 inches of snow falls in a winter.
| Holly Springs | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 32°F | 33°F | 22°F |
| July high | 88°F | 90°F | 85°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
1.1 miles of trail in 3 parks and preserves. Holly Springs’ trail density is 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Holly Springs | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.3% | 2.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. J.B. Owens Park | — | 11 |
| 2. Barrett Park | — | 5 |
| 3. Olde Rope Mill Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
2 within 15 miles of the center of Holly Springs
About 5 of every 100 Holly Springs residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Georgia.
Where Holly Springs’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
City in Georgia, United States
Holly Springs is a city in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Holly Springs had a population of 16,213. It is a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.
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One town shares a border with Holly Springs.
| Town | GA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Springs | #12 | A | D | A | A | B+ |
| Canton | #68 | B− | C− | B+ | A | B− |
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Holly Springs grades A overall, better than 86% of U.S. towns and #12 of 258 in Georgia. It grades B+ for health, A for safety and A for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
