Taxes & Insurance in Holly Springs
Holly Springs' property tax picture combines Wake County's rate with the town's own municipal rate -- explicitly the lowest among its Wake County neighbors -- for a combined nominal levy just under 0.86% of assessed value. North Carolina's statewide income-tax and insurance facts (covered in north-carolina.js) apply here without local modification.
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Learn moreA combined nominal rate around 0.86%, with the lowest municipal component locally
Wake County's FY2026 county-wide rate is 51.71 cents per $100 of assessed value (rising to 53.71 cents in FY2027). Holly Springs' own FY2026 municipal rate is 34.35 cents per $100 -- reported explicitly as the lowest among neighboring Wake County towns. Combined: 86.06 cents per $100 (0.8606%) of assessed value (base record). This is a nominal combined-levy figure, not necessarily identical to an 'effective rate on sale price' as computed by aggregators like SmartAsset or Ownwell, which showed real cross-source disagreement for other Wake County towns in this dataset -- confirm against a specific parcel's actual bill.
North Carolina's statewide income tax applies here, unmodified locally
North Carolina levies a flat state income tax, currently 3.99% for 2026 on a legislated phase-down toward 2.99% by 2028 (contingent on revenue triggers), per north-carolina.js. This is a statewide fact restated here for context, not re-derived locally -- see the state record for the full phase-down schedule and the property-tax-for-income-tax tradeoff North Carolina represents relative to Texas or Florida.
Insurance follows the Piedmont profile, not a coastal one
North Carolina's statewide homeowners insurance figures ($2,874-$3,749/yr average, per north-carolina.js) do not carry the coastal wind-pool/Beach Plan cost stack described for the Outer Banks and Wilmington in that same state record. Holly Springs sits in the Piedmont, which the state record describes as having a materially lower storm-risk profile than the coast -- no hurricane landfall exposure and no separate wind-pool requirement -- but real severe-thunderstorm, hail, and tornado risk instead; see the climate topic for specifics.
Key takeaways
- Combined Wake County-plus-Holly-Springs nominal property tax rate: about 0.86% of assessed value for FY2026, with Holly Springs' own 34.35-cent municipal rate explicitly the lowest among neighboring Wake County towns.
- North Carolina's statewide flat income tax (3.99% for 2026, phasing down toward 2.99% by 2028) applies here unmodified -- see north-carolina.js for the full schedule.
- Homeowners insurance follows North Carolina's Piedmont profile (no hurricane/wind-pool exposure) rather than its coastal profile -- real severe-thunderstorm and tornado risk instead, see the climate topic.
- Confirm the exact combined property-tax bill for a specific parcel directly -- the nominal combined rate here is not necessarily identical to an aggregator-computed 'effective rate.'
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