Photo: Wdzinc · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Columbus for about half of Franklin Township’s working residents
Measured by household income, Franklin Township is behind 85% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Franklin Township C; getting around on foot earns it A. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 3.2 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 4.6 in Columbus.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Franklin Township in brief
Stores, warehouses and trucking
43% of the jobs in Franklin Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 28% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Franklin Township
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Franklin Township is better than 32% of U.S. towns, #797 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Franklin Township’s grade up (ahead of 93% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (36.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Franklin Township could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Commuting out of Franklin Township: the destinations
Where Franklin Township clocks in
47% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
The kinds of work in Franklin Township
5,416 jobs are based in Franklin Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Franklin Township, 2014 → 2024: 7,032 → 5,416. 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 Franklin Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Franklin Township
On a workday 4,085 residents head out to work, 79 work right here, and 5,337 people come in from elsewhere.
About 12,000 people are in Franklin Township on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
A commute of about 20 minutes in Franklin Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Franklin Township workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,844 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Franklin Township
About 15% 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.
Franklin Township is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Franklin Township is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns, #26 of 993 in Ohio. Both inputs place Franklin Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,308 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 80% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 20% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 76% 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). 7.6% of Franklin Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Franklin Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Franklin Township next to U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000: 1,904th of 2,507 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| 4 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 10% | A+ |
| 5 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,902 | Yeadon PA | 12,320 | $50K | 12.6% | 9.4% | 2% | C |
| 1,903 | Lake City FL | 12,788 | $56K | 19.8% | 2.5% | 27% | C |
| 1,904 | Franklin Township OH | 11,048 | $52K | 36.8% | 4.8% | 2% | C |
| 1,905 | Jeannette PA | 8,489 | $49K | 18.8% | 4.6% | 8% | C |
| 1,906 | West Perrine FL | 11,162 | $67K | 18.1% | 9.9% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 19% | 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 Franklin Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
47% of Franklin Township works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Franklin Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Township | – | C | A | 20 min | $52,201 |
| Columbus | 47% | B− | A | 22 min | $66,082 |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | A− | B+ | 22 min | $91,817 |
| Prairie Township | under 2% | A− | A− | 21 min | $73,793 |
| Norwich Township | under 2% | A | B | 22 min | $130,801 |
| Valleyview | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Lincoln Village | under 2% | B | A | 20 min | $53,797 |
Same-state neighbors only. Valleyview: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Columbus. Darker towns draw more of Franklin Township’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 Franklin Township: questions
What is the median household income in Franklin Township?
$52,201 (±$8,663) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Franklin Township?
36.8%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Franklin Township?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Franklin Township work?
2% work in town.
Is Franklin Township walkable?
Franklin Township is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.4 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Franklin Township without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 20% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Franklin Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Franklin Township
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.