City · Warren County, Ohio

Franklin, Ohio

Franklin is a city in Warren County, Ohio, part of the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area. It has 11,712 residents. Franklin, Ohio has a quality-of-life score of 53 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,330 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Ohio it ranks #291 of 684 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), reading scores (high) and drug overdose deaths (low). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), child poverty rate (high) and students per teacher (high).

53Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,330 of 15,651 cities and towns
Ohio: #291 of 684 in OH
Population: 11,712 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 1,244.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 3928476

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety98#319/15,637
Economy32#10,692/15,631
Housing62#5,640/14,977
Health50#7,793/15,609
Healthcare64#5,640/15,650
Environment10#13,972/15,453
Education60#6,290/15,649
Infrastructure67#5,143/15,650
Community55#6,972/15,651
Leisure & amenities13#13,592/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Franklin, Ohio ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Warren County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Violent crime rate · low51 /100k
97/100Ohio 276 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationWarren County value
Reading scores · high3.46
97/100Ohio 3.06United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWarren County value
Drug overdose deaths · low6.7 /100k
94/100Ohio 18.9 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataWarren County value
Voter turnout · high78.5%
94/100Ohio 65.3%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionWarren County value
Math scores · high3.45
93/100Ohio 2.98United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWarren County value
Drought exposure · low2%
90/100Ohio 11%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAWarren County value

Weaknesses

Comfortable days · low21.6%
2/100Ohio 23.4%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWarren County value
Child poverty rate · high36.7%
6/100Ohio 16.4%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Students per teacher · high20.1×
8/100Ohio 16.8×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsWarren County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.1 µg/m³
10/100Ohio 8.5 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWarren County value
Poverty rate · high22.5%
11/100Ohio 12.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Grocery stores · low0.9 /10k
11/100Ohio 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWarren County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
36.3% (2015-2019) → 48.6% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
80.3% (2015-2019) → 92.4% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Child poverty rateWorsening
25.1% (2015-2019) → 36.7% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.2× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+43%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Poverty rateWorsening
14.3% (2015-2019) → 22.5% (2020-2024)
+8.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
83.2% (2015-2019) → 90.6% (2020-2024)
+7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Franklin, Ohio improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 4. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Uninsured−5.9 points12.2% → 6.3%
Broadband+12 points80.3% → 92.4%

Declined4

Poverty+8.2 points14.3% → 22.5%
Child poverty+12 points25.1% → 36.7%
Rent burden+12 points36.3% → 48.6%
Price / income+0.9×2.2× → 3.1×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Franklin, Ohio between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.8 min2015-2019	23.1 min2020-2024	+2.3 min	Within the margin of error	25%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.5%2015-2019	15.8%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Broadband subscriptions	80.3%2015-2019	92.4%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	70%
Child poverty rate	25.1%2015-2019	36.7%2020-2024	+12 points	Declined	10%
Effective property tax rate	1.56%2015-2019	1.28%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	73%
High school diploma or higher	83.2%2015-2019	90.6%2020-2024	+7.4 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+0.9×	Declined	25%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4412015-2019	0.4542020-2024	+0.012	Within the margin of error	40%
Median household income	$51,3372015-2019	$58,5872020-2024	+14%	Within the margin of error	22%
Poverty rate	14.3%2015-2019	22.5%2020-2024	+8.2 points	Declined	6%
Rent as share of income	25.8%2015-2019	29.5%2020-2024	+3.7 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Rent-burdened households	36.3%2015-2019	48.6%2020-2024	+12 points	Declined	19%
Unemployment rate	4.3%2015-2019	4.6%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	12.2%2015-2019	6.3%2020-2024	−5.9 points	Improved	89%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Franklin, Ohio five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Franklin, Ohio in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Franklin, Ohio itself moved −6.8 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

11,712 residents (±34)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

4,749 households (±269)

Franklin, Ohio
Ohio share

Under $25k19%906
$25k–50k23%†1,087
$50k–75k16%737

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

4,749 households (±269)

Franklin, Ohio
Ohio share

Own61%2,884
Rent39%1,865

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

5,353 workers (±518)

Franklin, Ohio
Ohio share

Drive alone76%4,044
Carpool12%†619
Public transit0.5%†25

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Warren County, the county holding most of Franklin's residents.

Warren County has 4,826 employer establishments, 191 for every 10,000 residents (0.77× the US rate of 248; 0.88× Ohio's), with 82,752 paid employees at an average annual pay of $61,608. The Census Bureau also counts 23,697 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 4,826; 23,697 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 191; US 248 · Ohio 216
Paid employees: 82,752
Average annual pay: $61,608; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Warren County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	409	16.2	0.78×Fewer than typical	6,030	$69,641	1,032
Restaurants and other eating places	379	15	0.82×About typical	7,907	$20,821	68
Specialty trade contractors	268	10.6	0.68×Fewer than typical	2,925	$64,053	1,319
Lessors of real estate	240	9.5	0.77×Fewer than typical	872	$54,549	2,215
Limited-service restaurants	192	7.6	0.95×About typical	3,530	$18,956	27
Services to buildings and dwellings	165	6.5	0.97×About typical	1,335	$43,627	1,074
Management, scientific and technical consulting	149	5.9	0.88×About typical	811	$92,713	1,124
Computer systems design and related services	141	5.6	1.29×More than typical	1,040	$103,252	368
Full-service restaurants	137	5.4	0.71×Fewer than typical	3,825	$23,134	28
Offices of physicians	128	5.1	0.78×Fewer than typical	1,281	$109,681	247
Religious organizations	125	4.9	0.89×About typical	1,601	$23,136	—
Construction of buildings	121	4.8	0.63×Fewer than typical	858	$83,861	560

Rank places for an industry Open Warren County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 252,993 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $2.9M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Franklin, Ohio: $244 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $2.9M; +44% vs FY2025
Per resident: $244; US $1,994
Sole-source: 27%; US 30%
Single offer: 36%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Defense Logistics Agency$2.3M81%
Department of the Navy$507.4K18%
Maritime Administration$21.5K0.8%
Department of Veterans Affairs$3,8630.1%

Top recipients

A&B FOUNDRY, LLC$2.4M85%
AVIATION GROUND EQUIPMENT CORP$556.7K19%
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$43.1K1.5%
HANGER PROSTHETICS & ORTHOTICS, INC$3,8630.1%
AVIATION GROUND EQUIPMENT CORP$2,0780.1%

Spending by fiscal year

176.3KFY2017
447.6KFY2018
489.8KFY2019
865.7KFY2020
717.8KFY2021
813.9KFY2022
832.5KFY2023
1.1M

Top industries (NAICS)

Other fabricated metal product manufacturing · 3329$870.7K30%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364$717K25%
Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$639.3K22%
Engine, turbine, and power transmission equipment manufacturing · 3336$438K15%
Ventilation, heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration equipment manufacturing · 3334$75.5K2.6%
Ship and boat building · 3366$70.7K

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Franklin, Ohio, so they do not add up across cities.

Franklin, Ohio's figures are part of those of Warren County, OH ($64.6M in FY2026), never added to them: 4.4% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Franklin is mostly in Warren County.

See federal money in Warren County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Franklin, Ohio is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Greg LandsmanD-OH-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 90%Missed 1.0%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Warren County88100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN69

Other cities and towns in Warren County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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