What is the population of Franklin city?

Franklin city has 6,026 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #209 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.

What is the median household income in Franklin city?

Median household income in Franklin city is $54,955 a year, 30% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Franklin city?

Median gross rent is $731 a month and the median home value is $109,200, so rent absorbs about 16% of median household income.

Is Franklin city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Franklin city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Franklin city, PA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Franklin city, Pennsylvania (Franklin city, PA — Census place “Franklin city”) is 6,026 residents, ranking #209 of 2002 places in Pennsylvania. Median household income is $54,955, the median home is worth $109,200 and median gross rent runs $731 a month. Looking for the Franklin city Pennsylvania ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Franklin city, PA: 16323.

Population: 6,026Franklin city residents
Median household income: $54,955Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $109,200Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $731Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 43 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 49.8%Owner-occupied households

Franklin city ZIP codes (Pennsylvania)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Franklin city.

The Franklin city PA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

16323

What the numbers mean in Franklin city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Franklin city median would spend about 16% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.0× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 17.2% of residents and 49.8% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Franklin city, PA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Franklin city is a mid-size town in Pennsylvania, with 6,026 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #209 of 2,002 ranked by population — larger than 89% of them. The median age here is 43 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 city earn a median of $54,955 a year, 30% below the national figure of $78,538 and 23% below the $71,118 median for the 982 Pennsylvania cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 17.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Franklin city is valued at $109,200, 64% below the national figure and 43% below the $193,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $731 a month, 48% below the national figure, or roughly $8,772 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 49.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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.

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What is the population of Franklin city?: Franklin city has 6,026 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #209 of 2,002 in Pennsylvania.
What is the median household income in Franklin city?: Median household income in Franklin city is $54,955 a year, 30% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Franklin city?: Median gross rent is $731 a month and the median home value is $109,200, so rent absorbs about 16% of median household income.
Is Franklin city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Franklin city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Franklin city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.