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SheetNY-FRANKLIN-SQUARE-NY · Franklin Square, NY 30,559 pop · income 92nd pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Franklin Square
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Franklin Square on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lawrenceville · lowest
58,606
Lawrenceville · lowest
58,606 median HH income
34.7% of the leader · rank #1
East Renton H… · near
140,048
East Renton H… · near
140,048 median HH income
83.0% of the leader · rank #2
Franklin Squa… · this city
140,051
Franklin Squa… · this city
140,051 median HH income
83.0% of the leader · rank #3
Camas · near
140,053
Camas · near
140,053 median HH income
83.0% of the leader · rank #4
Midland Park · near
140,063
Midland Park · near
140,063 median HH income
83.0% of the leader · rank #5
Monmouth Beach · near
140,074
Monmouth Beach · near
140,074 median HH income
83.0% of the leader · rank #6
Burlingame · highest
168,832
Burlingame · highest
168,832 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Franklin Square on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 30,559.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Franklin Square lands in the 92nd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
92nd
percentile, household income
91st
percentile, home value
78th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Franklin Square, NY
New York's Franklin Square is a small city, with 30,559 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Franklin Square brings in $140,051 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.6%. Home values in Franklin Square run a median of $640,300, and the median resident age is 40.7 years. 38.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 64.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 6 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New York at 107.9 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,579 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $285 across New York, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Franklin Square workers runs 31.9 minutes, with 68.6% driving alone and 10.1% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 69.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Franklin Square's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Franklin Square, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Franklin Square?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within New York, the closest population matches are North Tonawanda (30,338 residents, $66,774 income); Middletown (30,227 residents, $77,174 income); Port Chester (31,162 residents, $99,916 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Newington, CT (30,551 residents); Burlingame, CA (30,526 residents); Lawrenceville, GA (30,626 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
What does the education layer cover for Franklin Square?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 38.0% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
How far does income reach against housing in Franklin Square?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Franklin Square?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 31.9 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Top-decile income · poverty 4.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
C+
City profile score · Franklin Square, NY
63/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income A+
$140,051
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B
38.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
107.9 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Franklin Square profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 93/100 (A+) · $140,051
Bachelor's+ share: 72/100 (B) · 38.0%
Poverty rate: 68/100 (B-) · 4.6%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Franklin Square compare to other US cities?
Where Franklin Square sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income92% higher than other cities
Home value91% pricier than other cities
Median rent78% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Franklin Square against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New York only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New York-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Franklin Square near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Franklin Square ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Franklin Square only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#208 of 1,205
83rd percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#200 of 1,202
83rd percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#621 of 1,246
50th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#525 of 1,254
58th percentile in New York
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within New York only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
92nd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Franklin Square's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$640,3009th percentilemore affordable than 9% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Franklin Square's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,132 of 15,516
More affordable than 22% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,397 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.6×, Franklin Square sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,132 of 15,516 and #2,397 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$140,051Franklin Square, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Franklin Square, NY median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Franklin Square, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)38.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
30,559
Median Income
$140,051
Median Home Value
$640,300
Median Age
40.7
Poverty Rate
4.6%
Labor force participation
64.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
38.0%
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
31.9 minutes
Drive Alone
68.6%
Carpool
6.9%
Public Transit
11.2%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
10.1%
Other
2.7%
Based on 15,282 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New York statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $285
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New York at $285 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $65 ).
These are New York statewide averages, not a meter reading for Franklin Square. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New York's BEA cost-of-living index is 107.9 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Franklin Square is $1,579/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New York statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New York statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Franklin Square sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Franklin Square compares to similar-size New York cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NCES CCD, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.