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Brown Township gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $177K for a typical one, or 2.6 years of the Canton metro’s $68K median household income. It grades C overall, 827th of 987 graded towns in Ohio. The low prices come with trade-offs. Residents are less healthy than 85% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates, and the median household income is $57K, and 15% of residents live below the poverty line. Brown Township’s average trip to work is 36 minutes, above both the Ohio town median (24 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Patrick Hull House is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Brown Township beats most towns.
Where Brown Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Brown Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 365 in 1820, 7,214 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1894 and 4 maps from 1910 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Brown Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Brown Township.
Brown Township carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Ohio (mostly inland flooding), but it has commutes longer than most of Ohio.
19% of adults smoke cigarettes in Brown Township. Brown Township beats the Ohio average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 13. 16% of adults report frequent physical distress in Brown Township.
| Brown Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 28% | 25% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Brown Township | OH |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 10.5% | 8% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.9% | 7.1% |
| More smokers | 19.2% | 15.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its public schools are run by the Brown Local school district. Two of its 3 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malvern Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 259 | B− |
| Malvern High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 166 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OH on state tests and graduation
The average commute for its 3,143 working residents takes 35.6 minutes, against 23.4 across Ohio.
Most working residents leave Brown Township for work: only 14% work in town. Jobs based in Brown Township fell to 1,922 in 2023, 145 fewer than in 2013. The top destinations are Canton (13%), Minerva (10%) and Jackson Township (5%).
| Brown Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $57,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 14% | 6.8% | 8% |
| Work from home | 8.6% | 9.7% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Brown Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 20° and about 32 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 90% of Ohio towns, with expected losses of about $387 per resident a year; that rating is what its C+ for hazard risk is built on.
Brown Township’s FEMA risk score is 60 of 100. Since 2003, 21 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Brown Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
1.1 miles of trail in 4 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Malvern Village Park, at 50 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bicentennial Park | 0.6 mi | 14 |
| 2. Malvern Village Park | 0.3 mi | 50 |
| 3. Veterans Memorial Park | 0.1 mi | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Brown Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw15 mi MuseumPro Football Hall of Fame192K visitors a year
34 mi National ParkCuyahoga Valley National Park3.0M visitors a year
15 mi Stadium & arenaTom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium
15 mi LandmarkMcKinley National Memorial
30 mi MuseumAge of Steam Roundhouse
15 mi MuseumWilliam McKinley Presidential Library and MuseumPro Football Hall of Fame: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0 · Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Unknown, Public domain · Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium: Harrier233 at English Wikipedia, Public domain · McKinley National Memorial: CoolRockC, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Age of Steam Roundhouse: Alvintrusty, CC BY-SA 4.0 · William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum: Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
2 within 15 miles of the center of Brown Township
About 2 of every 100 Brown Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
Township in Ohio, US
Brown Township is one of the fourteen townships of Carroll County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the township had a population of 7,214.
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6 towns share a border with Brown Township.
All 3 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its C; Sandy Township (B) is closest.
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Township | #827 | C | B | — | B | D |
| Augusta Township | — | — | B+ | — | B− | D |
| Harrison Township | — | — | B− | — | B− | C− |
| Sandy Township | #471 | B | A− | — | B+ | D |
| Paris Township | #431 | B | A− | — | B+ | C |
| Osnaburg Township | #226 | A− | A | — | B | C |
| Rose Township | — | — | A− | — | B | C− |
Augusta Township, Harrison Township and Rose Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Brown Township, Augusta Township, Harrison Township, Sandy Township, Paris Township, Osnaburg Township and Rose Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Brown Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Brown Township grades C overall, better than 28% of U.S. towns and #827 of 987 in Ohio. It grades D for health and B for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.
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