Photo: Anne-Lise Heinrichs · CC BY 2.0Franklin Township has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income B: better than 57% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #526 of 992 in Ohio.
Walkability C+: more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns · #573 of 993 in Ohio.
Household incomes here are lower than in 56% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 21 minutes each way (Ohio 23, U.S. 26). Only 4% work in Franklin Township; the top destination outside it is Wooster (19%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Franklin Township
Franklin Township makes and builds things
79% of the jobs based in Franklin Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Franklin Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 39%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Franklin Township works one town over
32% of working residents work in a town that borders Franklin Township: Wooster (19%), Wooster Township (4%) and East Union Township (4%). Next door ↓
Franklin Township is a place people come home to
There are 310 jobs based in Franklin Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Franklin Township has about 2,800 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
36% of the jobs based in Franklin Township are held by workers 29 or younger, against 27% of Franklin Township’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What’s behind Franklin Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Franklin Township is better than 57% of U.S. towns, #526 of 992 in Ohio. Unemployment holds Franklin Township’s grade up (3.5%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($71,384, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Franklin Township could be anywhere from C− to A.
Franklin Township makes things: 79% of its jobs are in goods
310 jobs are based in Franklin Township. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Franklin Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Franklin Township, 2013 → 2023: 163 → 310. 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.
Franklin Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,668 residents head out to work, 71 work right here, and 239 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Franklin Township on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.18 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
19% of working residents work in Wooster
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Franklin Township clocks in
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Ohio
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 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 1,707 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Franklin Township commutes less than 12 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 17% 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.
Most trips from Franklin Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Franklin Township is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns, #573 of 993 in Ohio. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 3.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,886 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 19.8% 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.
Franklin Township is 1,757th of 3,962 U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,700 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Franklin Township, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
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| 58 | South Russell OH | 3,913 | $172K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 5% | A+ |
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| 66 | Beechwood Trails OH | 3,133 | $111K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 89 | Guilford Township OH | 3,158 | $112K | 0.5% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 1,755 | Prairie Township OH | 3,104 | $68K | 13.5% | 0.0% | 9% | B |
| 1,756 | Hanover Township OH | 3,384 | $68K | 7.9% | 2.8% | 4% | B |
| 1,757 | Franklin Township OH | 4,233 | $71K | 7.9% | 3.5% | 4% | B |
| 1,758 | Wahoo NE | 5,023 | $89K | 14.2% | 3.6% | 31% | B |
| 1,759 | Naples ME | 4,128 | $78K | 9.5% | 0.9% | 13% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,962 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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.
32% of Franklin Township works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Wooster (19%). Darker towns draw more of Franklin Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Franklin Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Township | – | B | C+ | 21 min | $71,384 |
| Wooster Township | 4% | C+ | C− | 16 min | $70,296 |
| Salt Creek Township | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Prairie Township | 2% | B | C+ | 24 min | $68,319 |
| Clinton Township | under 3% | B− | B+ | 20 min | $72,336 |
| East Union Township | 4% | A− | B+ | 17 min | $72,778 |
| Wooster | 19% | B | A | 17 min | $66,898 |
| Fredericksburg | under 3% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Salt Creek Township | 3% | B+ | B | 18 min | $85,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Salt Creek Township: not graded. Fredericksburg: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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?
$71,384 (±$13,215) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Franklin Township?
7.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Franklin Township?
21 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?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wooster (19%, 7 mi), Wooster Township (4%, 4 mi), East Union Township (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Franklin Township walkable?
Franklin Township is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Franklin Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
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.