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SheetPA-FRANKLIN-PARK-PA · Franklin Park, PA 15,273 pop · income 96th 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 Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Franklin Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Brunswick · lowest
34,021
Brunswick · lowest
34,021 median HH income
16.3% of the leader · rank #1
Pomona · near
172,188
Pomona · near
172,188 median HH income
82.7% of the leader · rank #2
Franklin Park · this city
172,200
Franklin Park · this city
172,200 median HH income
82.8% of the leader · rank #3
Timnath · near
172,206
Timnath · near
172,206 median HH income
82.8% of the leader · rank #4
Clayton · near
172,226
Clayton · near
172,226 median HH income
82.8% of the leader · rank #5
Amagansett · near
172,241
Amagansett · near
172,241 median HH income
82.8% of the leader · rank #6
Tenafly · highest
208,088
Tenafly · highest
208,088 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Franklin Park on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 15,273.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Franklin Park - the verdict
Nationally, Franklin Park sits in the 96th percentile for household income and the 93rd percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
96th
percentile, household income
83rd
percentile, home value
54th
percentile, median rent
93rd
percentile, safety
📝 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 Park, PA
Pennsylvania's Franklin Park is a small town, with 15,273 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Franklin Park households earn a median of $172,200 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.7%. Typical homes in Franklin Park are valued around $467,700, and the median resident age is 41.1 years. Educational attainment runs 75.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 69.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 16 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 58% from five years earlier. Franklin Park reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 289.2 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Pennsylvania tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Pennsylvania at 97.6 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,225 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Pennsylvania run around $260, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 67.4 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Franklin Park'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 work and mobility to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Franklin Park, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Franklin Park?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Is Franklin Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -514 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 16 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Franklin Park?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 289.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 87% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Franklin Park?
Within Pennsylvania, the closest population matches are Weigelstown (15,401 residents, $70,333 income); Whitehall (14,863 residents, $85,000 income); Greensburg (14,777 residents, $62,977 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Brookside, DE (15,262 residents); Rio Grande City, TX (15,258 residents); Hendersonville, NC (15,253 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.
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Franklin Park?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Household income
$172,200
Home value
$467,700
Value / income
2.7×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.7% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.6 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Pennsylvania average
A-
City profile score · Franklin Park, PA
84/100
5 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+
$172,200
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
75.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A+
0.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B+
74 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living C-
97.6 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Franklin Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $172,200
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 75.2%
Poverty rate: 95/100 (A+) · 0.7%
Violent crime: 77/100 (B+) · 74 /100k
Cost of living: 50/100 (C-) · 97.6 index
Where Franklin Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Franklin Park's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Franklin Park highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Franklin Park, PA (this city): home $467,700, crime 289/100k
Rio Grande City, TX : home $113,400, crime 1,926/100k
Hendersonville, NC : home $282,500, crime 3,322/100k
Tenafly, NJ : home $974,300, crime 473/100k
Phillipsburg, NJ : home $180,700, crime 1,933/100k
Whitehall, PA : home $229,200, crime 615/100k
Greensburg, PA : home $177,000, crime 910/100k
Hermitage, PA : home $187,600, crime 1,375/100k
How does Franklin Park compare to other US cities?
Here's how Franklin Park stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value83% pricier than other cities
Median rent54% pricier than other cities
Safety93% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Pennsylvania, Franklin Park ranks #73 of 402 Pennsylvania cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Franklin Park against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Pennsylvania only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Pennsylvania-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Franklin Park near the bottom of Pennsylvania's cities
Among the 1,865 Pennsylvania cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Franklin Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Franklin Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#22 of 1,765
99th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,865
0th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Home Value
#57 of 1,790
97th percentile in Pennsylvania
Poverty Rate
#1,449 of 1,856
22nd percentile in Pennsylvania
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#30 of 1,861
98th percentile in Pennsylvania
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 Pennsylvania only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
96th percentile nationally for median household income · 93rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Franklin Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Franklin Park's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Franklin Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$467,70017th percentilemore affordable than 17% 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 Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,108 of 15,516
More affordable than 67% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#561 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.7×, Franklin Park sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,108 of 15,516 and #561 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$172,200Franklin Park, PA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Franklin Park, PA 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 Park, PA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)75.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
15,273
Median Income
$172,200
Median Home Value
$467,700
Median Age
41.1
Poverty Rate
0.7%
Labor force participation
69.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
75.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
289.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
74.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
215.2
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Franklin Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
15,492 residents
2021
15,363 residents
2022
15,178 residents
2023
15,085 residents
2024
15,030 residents
2025
14,978 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
16
housing units authorized
Single-Family
16
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
38
38
0
$16.6M
2020
11
11
0
$4.3M
2021
7
7
0
$3.2M
2022
15
15
0
$5.5M
2023
22
22
0
$10.4M
2024
16
16
0
$11.1M
Permit volume decreased 58% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
70.8%
Carpool
6.7%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
20.0%
Other
1.6%
Based on 8,047 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Pennsylvania statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $260
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Pennsylvania at $260 (electricity about $120 , water and sewer about $52 ).
These are Pennsylvania statewide averages, not a meter reading for Franklin Park. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Pennsylvania's BEA cost-of-living index is 97.6 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Franklin Park is $1,225/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Pennsylvania statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 67.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Pennsylvania statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Franklin Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Franklin Park compares to similar-size Pennsylvania 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, FBI UCR, Census BPS 2024, 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.