Franklinville Historic District · Photo: Indy beetle · CC0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Franklinville works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Franklinville C−; getting around on foot earns it C. Employers in Franklinville report 191 jobs, against 495 working residents. Household incomes here are lower than in 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Franklinville stands out on work
Franklinville and Asheboro trade workers both ways
Asheboro is the top workplace for Franklinville residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Franklinville come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Franklinville workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 495 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Franklinville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Franklinville is better than 20% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Franklinville’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($52,805, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Franklinville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Franklinville could be anywhere from D to B.
21% of working residents work in Asheboro
Where Franklinville clocks in
21% of workers
11% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Getting to work from Franklinville takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Franklinville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 470 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across North Carolina: 85% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The daily flow of workers through Franklinville
On a workday 484 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 180 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Franklinville on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Franklinville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Franklinville, 2014 → 2024: 177 → 191. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Franklinville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Franklinville, by distance
About 21% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Franklinville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Franklinville is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 483 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.8% of Franklinville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Franklinville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Franklinville next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 3,343rd of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 76 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 285 | Montreat NC | 1,024 | $116K | 0.0% | 9.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 324 | Advance NC | 1,408 | $115K | 5.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,341 | Tompkins NY | 1,265 | $61K | 8.8% | 0.7% | 1% | C− |
| 3,342 | Raymond MS | 1,384 | $40K | 20.6% | 4.0% | 6% | C− |
| 3,343 | Franklinville NC | 1,256 | $53K | 18.2% | 2.8% | 2% | C− |
| 3,344 | Cando ND | 1,051 | $52K | 6.4% | 0.2% | 26% | C− |
| 3,345 | Ansonia OH | 1,147 | $62K | 17.2% | 5.3% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Franklinville, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
Next door to Franklinville
The biggest share goes to Ramseur (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Franklinville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklinville | – | C− | C | 28 min | $52,805 |
| Ramseur | 2% | D | C− | 25 min | $35,923 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Franklinville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Franklinville: questions
What is the median household income in Franklinville?
$52,805 (±$12,405) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Franklinville?
18.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Franklinville?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Franklinville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Asheboro (21%, 7 mi), Greensboro (11%, 26 mi), Charlotte (4%, 74 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Franklinville walkable?
Franklinville is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Franklinville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Franklinville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Franklinville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.