Franklin CenterNJ
A town of 6,646.
Is Franklin Center a good place to live?
The biggest park or preserve is Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park, at 61 acres. We don’t grade Franklin Center yet; the figures below are still real.
What makes Franklin Center stand out
Where Franklin Center beats most towns.
Franklin Center has grown 53% from 2010 to 2020
4,460 counted in 2010 and 6,803 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
Madison Square Garden and 512 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Franklin Center. Close and well known come first.
Big draw33 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw35 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw33 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw30 mi BeachConey Island
Big draw35 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a yearPhoto credits
Madison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Central Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Coney Island: OptimumPx, Public domain · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Moving to Franklin Center: who provides what
Franklin Center is unincorporated, so Somerset County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Franklin Center.
With 9.1 jobs for every working resident, Franklin Center draws in 25,653 commuters
The middle household income for Franklin Center comes to $157,000, above both the New Jersey town median ($113,000) and the median of U.S. towns ($80,000). Commuting out is the norm in the town: 9% of working residents work locally. Since 2013, Franklin Center has added 7,066 jobs, to 25,900 in 2023. For half of commuters, work is under 15 miles away.
| Franklin Center | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $157,000 | $113,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 30 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 7.3% | 6.1% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Low risk in Franklin Center, with inland flooding at the top
For Franklin Center, the natural-hazard score from FEMA is 30 of 100. FEMA puts 70% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 9% to earthquakes. Flood insurance has paid out on 45 claims locally since 1999.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Franklin Center has four seasons and pleasant summers
Summer afternoons peak near 87° in July, and January nights bottom out around 23°; snowfall runs to about 21 inches a winter. Franklin Center has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Compared with most of New Jersey and the rest of the country, fewer of Franklin Center’s adults report frequent mental distress
6.4% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Franklin Center, against 8.4% in New Jersey’s towns and 8.1% across U.S. towns. For adults in the town, the share who say their health is fair or poor is 12%. Only 5 of the 469 New Jersey towns we compare have a higher share of adults who had a checkup this year than Franklin Center. Among adults here, 10% binge drink and 12% have been diagnosed with depression.
| Franklin Center | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 17% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 16% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.4% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Franklin Center | NJ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 6.3% | 12.3% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 3.7% | 7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.9% | 7.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
4.3% of the land in Franklin Center is protected from building
Count the trails in 3 parks and preserves and they come to 0.6 miles. Franklin Center’s density of trails stands at 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Franklin Center | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4.3% | 11% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Colonial Park | 0.5 mi | 32 |
| 2. Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park | — | 61 |
| 3. Nassau Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in Franklin Center sells for about $688K at the median
In Franklin Center, the median rent is $2,748 a month. Among households in the town, 75% are owner-occupiers.
| Franklin Center | New Jersey towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,748 a month | $1,778 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 75% | 77% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Franklin Center
Colleges nearby
10 within 15 miles of the center of Franklin Center
About 5 of every 100 Franklin Center residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New Jersey.
Every workday, about 25,653 people come to Franklin Center for work
Where Franklin Center’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Franklin Center
Populated place in Somerset County, New Jersey, US
Franklin Center is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in Franklin Township, in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 census, Franklin Center had a population of 6,803.
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- Area
- 6.7 sq mi
- Elevation
- 82 ft
Franklin Center’s neighbors
10 towns share a border with Franklin Center.
| Town | NJ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Center | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Franklin Township | #246 | B | D | B+ | C | A |
| Finderne | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bridgewater Township | #144 | A− | D | — | B+ | A+ |
| Zarephath | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Weston | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Middlebush | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| East Millstone | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Bridgewater Township reports no FBI crime data of its own. Franklin Center, Finderne, Zarephath, Weston, Middlebush and East Millstone aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Franklin Center with a neighbor →
Questions about Franklin Center
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Franklin Center, NJ a good place to live?
We don’t grade Franklin Center yet; the figures below are still real.