Jackson Township Board of Trustees, Stark County, Ohio

Jackson Township is a wonderful place to live, work, and play. Jackson Township provides a full array of services needed to accommodate its residents and business community with a full-time Administrator, Fire, Police, Highway, Zoning, and Park Departments. The Township is a safe suburban place to live with a variety of housing choices, including new allotments, long-established neighborhoods, retirement communities, condominiums, and villas.


The Jackson Local School District has an excellent academic rating, and is a premier public school district. Stark State College of Technology, and Kent State University Stark Campus, along with Brown Mackie College are all thriving higher education institutions in Jackson Township.


Jackson Township is ideally located, with a major airport and access to interstate highways. There is an abundance of shopping centers, offices, restaurants, small businesses, and service industries.


Jackson Township has an extensive park system consisting of eight parks with over 250 acres of land where residents can play, enjoy sports, and the outdoors.


Jackson Township is one of the nation’s prime locations for businesses of all sizes to thrive and prosper. Few places can offer the whole package. A strong work ethic, a deep sense of family and community, and access to resources and markets make it desirable for business expansion and relocation.


With a diverse business community including retail, professional offices, small businesses, service industries, manufacturing and distribution, as well as health care and research firms, Jackson Township is the business heart of Stark County.


Everything you need is here: a healthy job market, superb school system, higher education, superior health care facilities, beautiful neighborhoods, the Paul and Carol David Jackson Township YMCA, library, parks, private, and public golf courses, a variety of churches, and a climate that nurtures the best of the four seasons. It all adds up to make Jackson Township a pleasant, attractive, enjoyable community and a wonderful place to live, work, play and to raise a family.


Jackson Township Board of Trustees


Todd J. Hawke James N. Walters John E. Pizzino
President Vice-President Trustee


Jackson Township Fiscal Officer

Randy Gonzalez