Photo: F Conrad · CC BY-SA 3.0Making a living in Franklin Township
At 23 minutes each way, commutes from Franklin Township run about the Ohio average. The two grades for Franklin Township are B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. About one in ten work in Franklin Township itself; outside it, Middletown draws the most (9%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Franklin Township stands out on work
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Franklin Township
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Franklin Township is better than 53% of U.S. towns, #586 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Franklin Township’s grade up (ahead of 81% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.7%, 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+.
Out of Franklin Township to work: where people go
Where Franklin Township clocks in
9% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Franklin Township
On a workday 13,219 residents head out to work, 1,562 work right here, and 9,677 people come in from elsewhere.
About 30,000 people are in Franklin Township on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What the 11,239 jobs in Franklin Township are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Franklin Township, 2013 → 2023: 11,245 → 11,239. 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 Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Franklin Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 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 14,386 commuters (the 10% 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.
How many miles Franklin Township commutes
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.
Franklin Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Franklin Township is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns, #630 of 993 in Ohio. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.7% across Ohio.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 15,902 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 7% 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). 4.5% of Franklin Township households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Franklin Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Franklin Township ranks: 865th of 1,315 U.S. towns of 23,000 to 45,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Upper Arlington OH | 35,893 | $155K | 3.3% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
| 6 | Hudson OH | 23,085 | $171K | 3.7% | 1.3% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Liberty Township OH | 40,625 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.5% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 863 | Wildomar CA | 37,889 | $104K | 10.6% | 7.7% | 5% | B− |
| 864 | Wenatchee WA | 35,547 | $73K | 10.4% | 3.2% | 44% | B− |
| 865 | Franklin Township OH | 33,063 | $75K | 13.7% | 4.6% | 11% | B− |
| 866 | Morgantown WV | 30,293 | $45K | 30.4% | 6.2% | 40% | B− |
| 867 | Fountain CO | 29,450 | $86K | 10.3% | 5.4% | 9% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,315 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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.
Franklin Township and its neighbors: 20% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Franklin Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Township | – | B− | C | 23 min | $75,257 |
| Clear Creek Township | under 3% | A+ | B− | 25 min | $132,049 |
| Springboro | 5% | A+ | C+ | 25 min | $119,659 |
| Franklin | 6% | C+ | C+ | 23 min | $58,587 |
| Middletown | 9% | C | A− | 24 min | $57,102 |
| Turtlecreek Township | under 3% | A | C− | 29 min | $108,309 |
| Miami Township | under 3% | B | B | 24 min | $79,536 |
| Madison Township | under 3% | B+ | D | 24 min | $82,216 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Middletown. 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 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 Township: questions
What is the median household income in Franklin Township?
$75,257 (±$4,012) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Franklin Township?
13.7%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Franklin Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Franklin Township work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Middletown (9%, 4 mi), Cincinnati (7%, 30 mi), Franklin (6%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Franklin Township walkable?
Franklin Township is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Franklin Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% 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), 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. 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.