Portage County Combined General Health District
Licenses food operations across Portage County — including Ravenna, Aurora, and Streetsboro — with one exception: the City of Kent runs its own health department.
Contact
- Official page
- 999 East Main Street, Ravenna, OH 44266
What to know before you call
- Kent is the carve-out. If your address is inside Kent city limits, you license through the Kent City Health Department instead.
Municipalities we have mapped to this agency
24 municipalities. Not exhaustive — townships and smaller villages may be missing. Tell us what to add.
Atwater Township · Aurora · Brimfield Township · Charlestown Township · Deerfield Township · Edinburg Township · Franklin Township · Freedom Township · Garrettsville · Hiram Township · Mantua · Mantua Township · Nelson Township · Palmyra Township · Paris Township · Randolph Township · Ravenna · Ravenna Township · Rootstown Township · Shalersville Township · Streetsboro · Suffield Township · Windham · Windham Township
Sources
Also licensing in Portage County
Coverage follows municipal lines, not county lines. If your address is not in the list above, one of these is probably yours.
- Kent City Health Department — Kent operates its own city health department, separate from the Portage County health district.
Once you know your agency
- Work through the opening path — every approval in the order it has to happen, with what blocks what.
- How a food service license application actually runs — plan review, risk levels, fees and inspection order. Written for Cuyahoga County; the sequence is the same everywhere in Ohio, the desk and the fees are not.
- What has to be in the kitchen before your inspection
- Food safety and health code consultants — if you would rather have someone walk the plan review with you.
Agency jurisdictions, fees, and procedures change. Confirm with the agency before you sign a lease, submit plans, or open. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.