The population of Franklin county is estimated at 50,241. In 2017 there were 576 births and 504 deaths in Franklin county. Franklin county has 9,464 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 3,927 that are owned free and clear and 7,271 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Franklin County filed 24,640 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.3% of all Kentucky filings and 0.017% of the entire nation. Franklin had a combined total federal tax liability of $179,730,000 on earned income of $1,296,207,000. Other notable statistics from Franklin County were 590 unemployment claims which collected a total of $2,224,000 and 5,250 charitable contributions valued at $26,705,000. 5,770 filings from Franklin County paid a combined total of $12,503,000 in property taxes and 5,010 filings paid $28,416,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Franklin county had 77 religious congregations with an estimated 28,208 members.
28.4% of the Franklin population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.7% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 47% of Franklin County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 503 votes.
At $53,198 the median income is 110.1% of the Kentucky average. An estimated 1,021 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Franklin, the equivalant of around 4.1% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.1%.

Top 15 Industries in Franklin County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,477	Retail trade
2,383	Manufacturing
1,948	Accommodation and food services
1,800	Health care and social assistance
1,690	Restaurants and other eating places
935	Finance and insurance
777	Professional, scientific, and technical services
775	Ambulatory health care services
768	Limited-service restaurants
749	Other services (except public administration)
680	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
673	Credit intermediation and related activities
621	General merchandise stores
572	Depository credit intermediation
512	Fabricated metal product manufacturing

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.23% in Franklin County.

In 2018 12.38% of listings in Franklin County.

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