Franklintown is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 543 people and just one neighborhood, Franklintown is the 975th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Franklintown real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Franklintown house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Franklintown is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 87.36% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Franklintown is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Franklintown who work in sales jobs (13.41%), office and administrative support (11.88%), and food service (8.43%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Franklintown has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
Also of interest is that Franklintown has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Of important note, Franklintown is also a borough of artists. Franklintown has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Franklintown’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Franklintown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.79% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Franklintown is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Franklintown is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 40.00% of adults in Franklintown have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.
The per capita income in Franklintown in 2022 was $55,468, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $221,872 for a family of four.
The people who call Franklintown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Franklintown residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Franklintown include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Franklintown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 39.1% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Franklintown are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 37.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.8%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Franklintown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.6%), and residents who report English roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (4.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.1%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.