Photo: Doug Kerr from Upstate New York · CC BY-SA 2.0A job hub: Franklin has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 174 people come in to work
179 jobs are based in Franklin, and 92 of its residents work somewhere. Only 5% work in Franklin itself; outside it, Delhi draws the most (15%, 14 miles). Home is the office for 24% of workers; New York has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Franklin for work, and who comes in
On a workday 87 residents head out to work and 5 work right here.
About 360 people are in Franklin on a workday afternoon, 32% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where the people who work in Franklin live
Where Franklin clocks in
15% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
Jobs in Franklin: what the 179 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Franklin, 2013 → 2023: 59 → 179. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Franklin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Franklin 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 Franklin workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 182 commuters (the 24% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far it is to work from Franklin
About 24% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 Franklin: questions
What is the median household income in Franklin?
$81,912 (±$14,982) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Franklin?
10.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Franklin?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Franklin work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delhi (15%, 14 mi), Oneonta (8%, 9 mi), Franklin (8%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Franklin without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Franklin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Franklin
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.