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Franklin Furnace is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,525 people and just one neighborhood, Franklin Furnace is the 506th largest community in Ohio.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, Franklin Furnace isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Franklin Furnace are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Franklin Furnace is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Franklin Furnace who work in healthcare (29.35%), office and administrative support (18.60%), and food service (5.29%).
Setting & Lifestyle
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Franklin Furnace has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Franklin Furnace has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Franklin Furnace than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Franklin Furnace may be for you.
One downside of living in Franklin Furnace is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Franklin Furnace, the average commute to work is 30.23 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Franklin Furnace doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
In terms of college education, the citizens of Franklin Furnace rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.94% of adults 25 and older in Franklin Furnace have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Franklin Furnace in 2022 was $22,124, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,496 for a family of four. However, Franklin Furnace contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Franklin Furnace is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Franklin Furnace home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Franklin Furnace residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Franklin Furnace include Irish, German, English, French, and European.
The most common language spoken in Franklin Furnace is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.5% of all American neighborhoods.
People
Of particular note, 5.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Real Estate
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
The Neighbors
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Franklin Furnace are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 29.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.4%), and 19.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.7%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Franklin Furnace, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (9.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report English roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.
Getting to Work
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (92.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
