History · Perry

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from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Perry Township is one of the seventeen townships of Stark County, Ohio, United States. It is an urban township; the 2020 census found 28,389 people in the township.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 28,353 people in 2010, 28,389 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1965.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Perry yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

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