It's Stark

Branhaven

Branhaven Tennis and Swim Club, on Portage in North Canton, has one of the larger outdoor pools in the area.

Football

Are there some Rutgers football players in the Hall of Fame? Will there be in the next generation?

Glenmoor

There is an outdoor pool at Glenmoor Country Club. This Google map aerial seems to show it without water, but that's difficult to tell for sure. Many other pools are featured in PoolTalk.

Population stats

The metro area population is 402.460, according to the latest figures. Most of that, 378,098, is in Stark County. Of that subtotal, 80,806 are in Canton. Cost of living in Canton is rated at 94 percent of the national average, with unemployment at 9.2 percent for Canton, above the rate for Ohio and for the nation.

Households

Household growth from 2000 to 2005 in Stark County was steady, but slow: 157,266 units grew to 162,337, about 3.2 percent growth over the five years. As a point of comparison, Lancaster County, Pa., grew to 190,000 households from 180,000 households in the same period, about 5.5 percent growth.