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North Carolina / Franklin County

How's Franklin County?

One question about Franklin County, North Carolina, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

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Franklin County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 2015 to 2025:wages and jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; air quality from the EPA, where a monitor reads it.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$1,124+2.2%+23.4%+48.4%2nd quartile971 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 16 of 100 in North Carolina
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives14.5K jobs+5.8%+21.5%+28.1%2nd quartile1,166 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 58 of 100 in North Carolina

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air2015 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days81.0% of days−8.6 pts+8.1 pts+25.9 pts2nd quartile333 of 913 counties in 2015 · 12 of 40 in North Carolina
Median daily AQI2015 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate43 AQI+3.0 AQI−1.0 AQI−6.0 AQI2nd quartile365 of 913 counties in 2015 · 22 of 40 in North Carolina

4 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Franklin County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Franklin County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.