26,273 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.0% since 2020)
572 square miles of land · 46 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
14 active community water systems list Franklin County in the area they serve, reporting 24,169 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| OTTAWA, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2005906 | 12,604 served |
| FRANKLIN CO RWD 6 surface water · local government · KS2005909 | 2,960 served |
| FRANKLIN CO RWD 4 buys surface water · local government · KS2005913 | 2,281 served |
| WELLSVILLE, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · KS2005916 | 1,933 served |
| POMONA, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · KS2005907 | 890 served |
| FRANKLIN CO RWD 5 buys surface water · local government · KS2005908 | 855 served |
| FRANKLIN CO RWD 1 buys surface water · local government · KS2005915 | 665 served |
| RICHMOND, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2005904 | 442 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 65 people were held in Franklin County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 395 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 58.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
4 school districts have their office in Franklin County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $34.3 million — $31.2 million to run schools, about $13,294 per student, plus $908,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.7 million local (mostly property tax), $27.4 million state, $4.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $84.3 million.
Spent $22.9 million — $10.8 million to run schools, about $12,791 per student, plus $11.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.8 million local (mostly property tax), $8.4 million state, $813,000 federal. Long-term debt: $18.1 million.
Spent $10.6 million — $9.9 million to run schools, about $16,034 per student, plus $362,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.3 million local (mostly property tax), $7.6 million state, $761,000 federal. Long-term debt: $13 million.
Spent $9.3 million — $8.4 million to run schools, about $15,510 per student, plus $835,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $6.8 million state, $920,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.6 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Franklin County about $15.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
332 bridges in Franklin County: 180 in good condition, 138 fair, and 14 poor (4.2%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| RS 2066 8.5-6.8 over PAYNE CREEK · built 1928 | 558 vehicles a day |
| RS 260 22.4-8.3 over EIGHT MILE CREEK · built 1979 | 517 vehicles a day |
| RS 259 7.0-7.1 over TRIB. TO MIDDLE CREEK · built 1930 | 504 vehicles a day |
| RS0263 over I35 HWY NB-SB · built 1958 | 411 vehicles a day |
| RS 260 23.0-3.8 over TRIB. TO APPANOOSE CREEK · built 1930 | 267 vehicles a day |
| RS 1066 5.7-7.0 over TRIB. TO MIDDLE CREEK · built 1935 | 161 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $23 million of work in Franklin County in fiscal 2025, about $884 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Kansas are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Franklin County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Franklin County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Douglas County (23 mi) · Anderson County (24 mi) · Osage County (24 mi) · Miami County (24 mi) · Coffey County (33 mi) · Linn County (33 mi).