Photo: F Conrad · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Franklin are lower than in 76% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 22.5% of residents (Ohio 13.3%). Jobs and income earn Franklin C+; getting around on foot earns it C+. About one in ten stay in Franklin for work; outside it, Cincinnati is the main destination (8%, 31 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Franklin, in a few figures
Franklin trades workers with the towns around it
Franklin has about as many jobs (5,066) as working residents (5,478), but they are mostly different people: 5,010 residents leave for work each day while 4,598 people come in. Only 9% of the jobs in Franklin are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
No single place dominates Franklin’s commute
The biggest draw, Cincinnati, gets only 8% of working residents, and 52% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Franklin residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Franklin’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Franklin is Cincinnati, 31 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (419) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Franklin makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Franklin are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Franklin residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Franklin draws workers from far and wide
The 5,066 jobs in Franklin are filled from a wide area. Franklin’s own residents hold 9% and the ten next-biggest home towns 35%; the other 56% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
Franklin’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Franklin is better than 36% of U.S. towns, #768 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Franklin’s grade up (ahead of 82% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Franklin could be anywhere from C− to B.
A workday in Franklin: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 5,010 residents head out to work, 468 work right here, and 4,598 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.92 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.
Where people from Franklin work
Where Franklin clocks in
8% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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.
How far Franklin’s workers travel
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.
In Franklin, 40% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
5,066 jobs are based in Franklin.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Franklin, 2013 → 2023: 4,684 → 5,066. 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.
About 23 minutes each way for Franklin’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 workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,890 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.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Few in Franklin walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Franklin is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns, #515 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 5,353 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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). 7.1% of Franklin households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Franklin’s commuters take a bus or train.
Franklin is 1,969th of 2,695 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000 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% | 11% | A+ |
| 5 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Jerome Township OH | 11,237 | $176K | 0.4% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,967 | Green River WY | 11,450 | $85K | 9.3% | 5.6% | 28% | C+ |
| 1,968 | Memphis FL | 9,185 | $75K | 14.2% | 8.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,969 | Franklin OH | 11,647 | $59K | 22.5% | 4.6% | 9% | C+ |
| 1,970 | Dryden NY | 13,320 | $81K | 13.6% | 5.6% | 11% | C+ |
| 1,971 | American Township OH | 14,434 | $65K | 8.1% | 7.7% | 13% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Franklin and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Springboro (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Franklin workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin | – | C+ | C+ | 23 min | $58,587 |
| Carlisle | under 3% | B | C+ | 22 min | $71,136 |
| Springboro | 5% | A+ | C+ | 25 min | $119,659 |
| Clear Creek Township | under 3% | A+ | B− | 25 min | $132,049 |
| Franklin Township | under 3% | B− | C | 23 min | $75,257 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Franklin’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: questions
What is the median household income in Franklin?
$58,587 (±$7,762) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Franklin?
22.5%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Franklin?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Franklin work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cincinnati (8%, 31 mi), Middletown (8%, 5 mi), Springboro (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Franklin walkable?
Franklin is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Franklin without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
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. 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.