Photo: Montgomery County Planning Commission · CC BY-SA 2.0Franconia Township has higher household incomes than 84% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 3.2% of residents, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania. The two grades for Franconia Township are A for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 0.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 37.7 in Philadelphia.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Franconia Township stands out on work
Franconia Township trades workers with the towns around it
Franconia Township has about as many jobs (6,920) as working residents (6,780), but they are mostly different people: 6,202 residents leave for work each day while 6,342 people come in. Only 8% of the jobs in Franconia Township are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Franconia Township makes and builds things
51% of the jobs based in Franconia Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Franconia Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. The jobs ↓
No single place dominates Franconia Township’s commute
The biggest draw, Philadelphia, gets only 8% of working residents, and 56% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Franconia Township residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
A lot of Franconia Township works from home
24% of Franconia Township workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Time on the road ↓
Franconia Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Franconia Township is Philadelphia, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (573) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
How Franconia Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Franconia Township is better than 90% of U.S. towns, #167 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The poverty rate holds Franconia Township’s grade up; unemployment pulls it down (4.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Franconia Township could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Who works in Franconia Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 6,202 residents head out to work, 578 work right here, and 6,342 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 (1.02 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.
51% of the jobs in Franconia Township make or build things
6,920 jobs are based in Franconia Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Franconia Township, 2013 → 2023: 6,705 → 6,920. 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 Franconia Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
8% of working residents work in Philadelphia
Where Franconia Township clocks in
8% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
About 30 minutes to work from Franconia Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Franconia Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,684 commuters (the 23% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Near or far: the trip to work from Franconia Township
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.
Franconia Township is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Franconia Township is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns, #314 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 7.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,120 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 23% 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 0.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 50% 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). 5.6% of Franconia Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 7% of Franconia Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Franconia Township next to U.S. towns of 10,000 to 19,000: 385th of 2,227 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
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| 17 | Lower Moreland Township PA | 14,116 | $154K | 2.6% | 2.0% | 6% | A+ |
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| 32 | Skippack Township PA | 14,502 | $148K | 2.5% | 2.4% | 5% | A+ |
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| 48 | Upper Uwchlan Township PA | 13,681 | $191K | 1.6% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
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| 383 | Mantua Township NJ | 15,582 | $122K | 3.4% | 4.8% | 7% | A |
| 384 | Brunswick NY | 12,626 | $107K | 2.8% | 3.1% | 5% | A |
| 385 | Franconia Township PA | 13,827 | $111K | 3.2% | 4.5% | 9% | A |
| 386 | Winfield IL | 10,146 | $136K | 3.2% | 5.6% | 2% | A |
| 387 | Josephine TX | 10,208 | $91K | 5.8% | 1.8% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,227 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Franconia Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work next door: 14% of Franconia Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to Hatfield Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Franconia Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franconia Township | – | A | A− | 30 min | $111,426 |
| Salford Township | under 3% | A+ | C | 28 min | $125,658 |
| Lower Salford Township | 4% | A | B | 29 min | $146,481 |
| Souderton | 3% | B+ | A | 29 min | $93,537 |
| Upper Salford Township | under 3% | A+ | C | 25 min | $138,600 |
| Telford | under 3% | A− | A | 24 min | $91,058 |
| Hatfield Township | 5% | A | B | 27 min | $97,993 |
| Towamencin Township | 2% | A− | B | 28 min | $100,396 |
| Harleysville | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Harleysville: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Franconia 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 Franconia Township: questions
What is the median household income in Franconia Township?
$111,426 (±$23,796) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Franconia Township?
3.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Franconia Township?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Franconia Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Philadelphia (8%, 24 mi), Hatfield Township (5%, 4 mi), Lower Salford Township (4%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Franconia Township walkable?
Franconia Township is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Franconia Township without a car?
7% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Franconia Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Franconia 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.