Samuel Bartley Holleman House · Photo: KimWrenn · CC BY-SA 3.0On violent crime, Holly Springs has a lower rate per resident than 69% of U.S. towns
One of the 2 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Graded on crimes Holly Springs’ police reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores B+ for safety: #12 of 163 graded towns in North Carolina. Behind the grade sit 1.0 violent crime and 8.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 5.1 and 28.0 in the rest of North Carolina.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of NC” is every other North Carolina city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Holly Springs
1 of the 2 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 3 North Carolina towns on Holly Springs’ borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Fuquay-Varina (A−), Cary (B). Apex reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024. Neighbors ↓
Among North Carolina towns, higher
North Carolina’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Holly Springs’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 93% of the 163 North Carolina towns we grade, against 67% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Holly Springs’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Holly Springs | Rest of North Carolina | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.7 | 5.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.8 | 5.5 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.2 | 5.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.9 | 4.4 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Holly Springs’ police reported 143 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.1 in the rest of North Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Holly Springs property | Rest of North Carolina property | Holly Springs violent | Rest of North Carolina violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.0 | 29.0 | 0.7 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 10.3 | 29.8 | 0.8 | 5.5 |
| 2024 | 8.4 | 29.0 | 1.2 | 5.3 |
| 2025 | 7.1 | 25.4 | 0.9 | 4.4 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of North Carolina.
Crime in Holly Springs per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
404 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total. 2025 figures come from FBI Crime Data Explorer, which publishes violent crime, homicides, robberies and property crime only.
45 violent and 359 property, as reported to the FBI by Holly Springs’ police.
Five people died in crashes on Holly Springs’s roads in 2019–2023
Holly Springs had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died.
That is fewer than is typical for North Carolina towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (7.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Holly Springs’s size would see about 18 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Holly Springs’s own rate (2.2) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Holly Springs and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Springs | B+ | 1.0 | 8.6 |
| Apex | — | — | — |
| Fuquay-Varina | A− | 0.7 | 5.5 |
| Cary | B | 0.8 | 11.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Apex reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024.
North Carolina towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Springs | B+ | 1.0 | 8.6 |
| Wake Forest | B− | 1.3 | 12.9 |
| Mooresville | C | 2.2 | 20.7 |
| Wilson | D | 5.3 | 23.9 |
| Hickory | D | 4.9 | 29.1 |
| Rocky Mount | D− | 7.7 | 35.4 |
The five graded North Carolina towns closest to Holly Springs’ population (50,288), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Holly Springs. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Holly Springs’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (50,637 in 2025); our figure for Holly Springs is 50,288 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Holly Springs
Is Holly Springs, NC safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Holly Springs reports less crime per resident than 67% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #12 of 163 in North Carolina. Its police reported 1.0 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.1 in the rest of North Carolina and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Holly Springs?
1.0 violent and 8.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of North Carolina reports 5.1 and 28.0; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Holly Springs in 2025?
Holly Springs’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Holly Springs safer than Fuquay-Varina?
Fuquay-Varina reports less crime per resident than Holly Springs: Fuquay-Varina grades A− for safety and Holly Springs B+. Fuquay-Varina’s police reported 0.7 violent and 5.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Holly Springs?
Holly Springs’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Holly Springs Police Department”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.