The population of Franklin county is estimated at 153,564. In 2017 there were 1,810 births and 1,587 deaths in Franklin county. Franklin county has 27,553 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 15,330 that are owned free and clear and 15,506 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Franklin County filed 76,500 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.2% of all Pennsylvania filings and 0.051% of the entire nation. Franklin had a combined total federal tax liability of $579,729,000 on earned income of $4,130,775,000. Other notable statistics from Franklin County were 5,520 unemployment claims which collected a total of $23,306,000 and 14,110 charitable contributions valued at $74,813,000. 17,450 filings from Franklin County paid a combined total of $60,206,000 in property taxes and 14,750 filings paid $99,466,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Franklin county had 238 religious congregations with an estimated 51,903 members.
20.6% of the Franklin population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 12.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 45% of Franklin County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 6,543 votes.
At $60,077 the median income is 101.5% of the Pennsylvania average. An estimated 3,414 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Franklin, the equivalant of around 4.5% 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
8,182	Manufacturing
8,178	Health care and social assistance
7,106	Retail trade
3,901	Machinery manufacturing
3,634	Food services and drinking places
3,546	Transportation and warehousing
2,654	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
2,451	Ambulatory health care services
2,067	Professional, scientific, and technical services
1,751	Full-service restaurants
1,558	Other services (except public administration)
1,466	Food and beverage stores
1,404	Limited-service restaurants
1,384	General merchandise stores
1,298	Motor vehicle and parts dealers

In 2018 the average price reduction was 3.46% in Franklin County (averaging across 5 zip codes; 17201, 17222, 17268 and 17202).

In 2018 13.98% of listings in Franklin County (averaging across 6 zip codes a sample of which are; 17222, 17268, 17236 and 17202) dropped their price.

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