[6] The largest portion of Cuyahoga Valley National Park is in the northern part of the county.

The southern border of the former Connecticut Western Reserve passes through the southern part of the county, leading to jogs in the east and west borders of the county.

Summit County also has an appointed medical examiner rather than an elected coroner, and an elected fiscal officer, who exercises the powers and performs the duties of a county auditor, treasurer and recorder.

They include the following: Summit County currently has 14 Common Pleas judges.

There were 245,109 housing units at an average density of 593.8 per square mile (229.3/km2).

[30] In terms of ancestry, 24.9% were German, 15.3% were Irish, 10.6% were English, 10.1% were Italian, 5.1% were Polish, and 4.5% were American.