The Franklin Ward is the southernmost ward on the Auckland Council. The Franklin ward has one local board, also called Franklin; the Franklin Local Board has three subdivisions - Wairoa, Pukekohe and Waiuku. Franklin is currently represented by Andy Baker.
Franklin ward covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km<sup>2</sup>.
Franklin ward had a population of 84,357 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 9,519 people (12.7%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 19,038 people (29.1%) since the 2013 census. There were 41,865 males, 42,252 females and 243 people of other genders in 28,884 dwellings. 2.4% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The median age was 40.1 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 16,929 people (20.1%) aged under 15 years, 14,274 (16.9%) aged 15 to 29, 39,231 (46.5%) aged 30 to 64, and 13,923 (16.5%) aged 65 or older.
People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 77.0% European (PÃÂkehÃÂ); 16.6% MÃÂori; 7.3% Pasifika; 12.5% Asian; 1.1% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 2.3% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 96.2%, MÃÂori language by 2.8%, Samoan by 0.8%, and other languages by 14.0%. No language could be spoken by 2.0% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 0.4%. The percentage of people born overseas was 25.6, compared with 28.8% nationally.
Religious affiliations were 31.7% Christian, 2.4% Hindu, 0.9% Islam, 1.0% MÃÂori religious beliefs, 0.6% Buddhist, 0.3% New Age, 0.1% Jewish, and 2.6% other religions. People who answered that they had no religion were 53.0%, and 7.5% of people did not answer the census question.
Of those at least 15 years old, 14,595 (21.6%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 36,210 (53.7%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 16,632 (24.7%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. The median income was $47,300, compared with $41,500 nationally. 11,331 people (16.8%) earned over $100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 36,495 (54.1%) people were employed full-time, 8,811 (13.1%) were part-time, and 1,698 (2.5%) were unemployed.
Election Results for the Franklin Ward:
class="wikitable" style="text-align:right" +Franklin ward ! colspan="2" style="width:130px" Affiliation ! style="width:17em" Candidate ! style="width:5em" Votes ! style="width:3.5em" % - style="background:" style="text-align:left" Team Franklin style="text-align:left" Andy Baker 10,912 56.82 - style="background:" style="text-align:left" ACT Local style="text-align:left" Dene Green 4,395 22.89 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Les Thomas 3,341 17.40 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right" Informal 21 0.11 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right" Blank 534 2.78 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right" Turnout 19,203 31.88 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right" Registered 60,244 style="background:lightgrey" - style="background:" colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" Team Franklin hold - colspan="5" style="background:#eaecf0;text-align:left;padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px" incumbent }