Franklin is a census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.

[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 km2), all of it land.

There were 69 housing units at an average density of 32.8 per square mile (12.7/km2), of which 44 (71.0%) were owner-occupied, and 18 (29.0%) were occupied by renters.

There is a cemetery just to the east of Franklin Elementary School, which is the final resting place of many settlers of not only Sacramento County, but from all over California.

Its most famous grave is that of Alexander Hamilton Willard, who was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.