Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 4,233.
Franklin Township grades B+ overall, 401st of 987 graded towns in Ohio, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Its public schools beat 81% of Ohio towns on state tests and graduation and natural-hazard risk is low. Its lowest everyday mark is in health: residents are less healthy than 67% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $276K, 3.7 years of the Wooster area’s $74K median household income. 17% of the land in Franklin Township is conserved, above both the Ohio town median (3.7%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). Gertenslager Carriage and Wagon Company is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Franklin Township beats most towns.
Where Franklin Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Franklin Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 2,747 in 1990, 4,235 in 2020. The archive holds 2 old photos and papers going back to 2010 and 5 maps from 1915 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in Franklin Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Franklin Township.
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 88% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
One of its 5 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny Meadow PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 42 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OH on state tests and graduation
Franklin Township has 310 jobs for its 1,739 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Franklin Township for work: only 4% work in town. Since 2013, Franklin Township has added 147 jobs, to 310 in 2023. Franklin Township’s average trip to work is 21 minutes, against 24 minutes in Ohio’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns.
| Franklin Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.1% | 6.9% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.9% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $71,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
37% of Franklin Township adults feel lonely. Franklin Township beats the Ohio average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 19% of Franklin Township adults binge drink.
| Franklin Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 34% | 33% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 16% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 26% | 23% |
| What stands out | Franklin Township | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults seeing a dentist | 58.9% | 62.9% |
| Fewer adults getting cholesterol checked | 82.5% | 86.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
1.7 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves. Franklin Township’s trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Franklin Township has chilly winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 19° and about 29 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
3 within 15 miles of the center of Franklin Township
About 0 of every 100 Franklin Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
Township in Ohio, US
Franklin Township is one of the sixteen townships of Wayne County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 4,235 people in the township.
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8 towns share a border with Franklin Township.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Township | #401 | B+ | B | — | A− | C |
| Wooster Township | #423 | B | B | — | A− | B− |
| Prairie Township | #461 | B | B+ | — | A− | C− |
| Clinton Township | #205 | A− | A | — | B+ | C− |
| East Union Township | #231 | A− | B+ | — | A− | C− |
| Wooster | #466 | B | B | C | B | B |
| Fredericksburg | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Salt Creek Township · Salt Creek Township | #674 | C+ | C− | — | A− | C− |
Franklin Township, Wooster Township, Prairie Township, Clinton Township, East Union Township and Salt Creek Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Fredericksburg isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Salt Creek Township and Salt Creek Township are one community, graded once. Compare Franklin Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Franklin Township grades B+ overall, better than 66% of U.S. towns and #401 of 987 in Ohio. It grades C for health and A− for schools.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.