Each March, several thousand people come to Buzzard Roost to watch the buzzards return to the cliffs and fields to lay their eggs. An annual Sunday event that began in 1957 and is now heavily publicized, the return of the buzzards is celebrated by local folks with an arts and crafts show and a pancake breakfast. Since Judge Samuel Hinckley founded Hinckley in 1825, the township has had slow, controlled growth. The average amount of new houses built each year is 30 and a strict zoning code maintains land usage. There is a strong feeling among residents to keep the community as rural as possible while providing as many services as the township budget will allow.
Many professionals live within the community and work in Akron or Cleveland.
Incentives attract new companies to headquarter within the township's industrial park, which is starting to approach full capacity. Two years ago a new town hall was built around the old structure and soon ground will be broken for a new police station. Two school jurisdictions, Brunswick and Highland, educate the township children, with the majority attending Highland School District. The Beacon Journal Publishing Co.