The population of Franklin county is estimated at 64,659. In 2017 there were 708 births and 587 deaths in Franklin county. Franklin county has 11,759 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,270 that are owned free and clear and 5,994 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Franklin County filed 27,130 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.6% of all North Carolina filings and 0.018% of the entire nation. Franklin had a combined total federal tax liability of $175,151,000 on earned income of $1,349,264,000. Other notable statistics from Franklin County were 470 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,351,000 and 6,320 charitable contributions valued at $27,485,000. 7,020 filings from Franklin County paid a combined total of $16,753,000 in property taxes and 6,330 filings paid $42,756,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Franklin county had 90 religious congregations with an estimated 22,975 members.
21.0% of the Franklin population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.8% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 46% of Franklin County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 1,843 votes.
At $53,076 the median income is 100.5% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 1,406 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Franklin, the equivalant of around 4.7% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 5.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Franklin County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,327	Manufacturing
1,385	Retail trade
1,162	Health care and social assistance
633	Accommodation and food services
613	Food services and drinking places
562	Restaurants and other eating places
414	Wholesale trade
383	Limited-service restaurants
378	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
349	Ambulatory health care services
333	Food and beverage stores
308	Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
247	Professional, scientific, and technical services
231	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
226	Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.57% in Franklin County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 27549, 27525 and 27596).

In 2018 15.45% of listings in Franklin County (averaging across 3 zip codes; 27596, 27525 and 27549) dropped their price.

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