Franklin (Merced Co.), CA population, income and ZIP codes

Franklin CDP (Merced County) is a mid-size town in California, with 7,487 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #556 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 65% of them. The median age here is 34.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Franklin CDP (Merced County) earn a median of $56,274 a year, 28.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 38% below the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 23.5% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Franklin CDP (Merced County) is valued at $285,700, 5.8% below the national figure and 52% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,450 a month, 3.1% above the national figure, or roughly $17,400 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 78.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.