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.