Franklin, MD population, income and ZIP codes

Franklin CDP is a very small community in Maryland, with 356 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #407 of 536 ranked by population — larger than 24% of them. The median age here is 55.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Franklin CDP earn a median of $14,738 a year, 81.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 86% below the $109,026 median for the 332 Maryland cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 87.6% 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 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $245 a month, 82.6% below the national figure, or roughly $2,940 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 39.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 55.2 puts Franklin CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 356 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Franklin CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Franklin CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.