Akron to Euclid
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Akron ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2.85%
Euclid, on income earned there
Home city charges
2.5%
Akron, residents
Credit back
$1,500
capped by the ceiling
Cost of the commute
$210
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
ceiling bindsAkron's credit stops at its ceiling, so the rest of its own tax still applies. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Akron bar is the credit it hands back. Municipal income tax only — state, federal and payroll tax apply on top, and an Ohio school district income tax may too.
What this commute actually costs
- A credit with a ceiling is not a full credit. Akron hands back $1,500 of what Euclid took and then stops, because its own rules cap the credit at about 2.5% of income. You make up the difference yourself. Over a year that difference is $210 you would not owe if you worked where you live.
- Euclid draws workers from 4 places in this data, and Akron is 3 of them by size, with about 536 people. It is a short list. Smaller routes into the city exist below the counting threshold.
- The credit here is real but bounded. Akron allows residents about 100% of tax paid to another municipality, subject to a ceiling of about 2.5% of income, and on this pairing it is the ceiling rather than the share that binds. Euclid withholds $1,710 at about 2.85%; Akron returns $1,500 of that and collects the remainder of its own about 2.5% resident levy. The workplace accordingly costs $210 above the home-only position, against a total of $1,710.
- Euclid records 4 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Akron ranks 3 by worker count at approximately 536. A workplace of this size draws from a small enough set of origins that the comparison is indicative rather than statistical, and the published floor excludes an unknown tail of smaller flows.
Where the money goes
A $75,000 salary
- Federal income tax$7,670
- Social Security and Medicare$5,738
- State income tax$1,346
- Yours$60,246
| Federal income tax10.23% | $7,670 |
|---|---|
| Social Security and Medicare7.65% | $5,738 |
| State income tax1.79% | $1,346 |
| Yours80.33% | $60,246 |
The arithmetic, step by step
| Euclid takes, on income earned there | $1,710 |
|---|---|
| Akron charges residents | $1,500 |
| Less the credit Akron gives back | $1,500 |
| Total local tax | $1,710 |
| If you also lived in Euclid | $1,500 |
| Difference | $210 |
On a reference salary of $60,000 a year. Both rates and the credit ceiling are shares of income, so every figure scales with your own pay.
What this page does not cover
- Do not add the two rates up, and do not assume the bigger one simply wins. Neither is how Ohio works. Both Euclid and Akron charge you. Akron may then hand back what Euclid took, or part of it, or none of it. Everything on this page turns on which of those it does.
- The credit rule on this page belongs to Akron, not to the state. Its council sets it and its council can change it. Nothing needs to happen in Euclid or at the state level for these numbers to move. Check the current rule before you rely on it.
- Ohio has a second local tax that is not on this page. Some school districts levy their own income tax. It depends on where you live, not on your job in Euclid, and the credit from Akron does not touch it. If your district charges one, add it to everything here.
- These figures are the local layer alone. Whatever Akron and Euclid take sits on top of state, federal and payroll tax. Those three are the same wherever in Ohio you work, so putting them in would bury the difference this page is about.
- Every dollar amount here uses a salary of sixty thousand a year. It is a benchmark, not a guess at what people in Akron earn, because nobody publishes average pay for single municipalities. Scale the figures to your own salary. The rates and the credit work the same way at any income, so the Euclid conclusion holds.
- Two misreadings bracket the correct answer and both are common. Ohio does not simply add the two rates together, which would overstate the charge; nor does it apply only the higher of them, which is Pennsylvania's rule and would understate it wherever the credit is partial. Euclid taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Akron taxes its residents on everything, and Akron then credits some, all or none of what Euclid collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Akron rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Akron's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Akron alone. Ohio's uniform framework governs definitions, filing and withholding; it does not compel any municipality to credit tax paid to another. A council vote in Akron can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Euclid or in state law, which is a materially different exposure from a rate set by statute.
- Ohio school district income tax is a separate levy from municipal income tax and is excluded from these figures. It is imposed by school district of residence rather than by municipality, it is unaffected by employment in Euclid, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Akron whose school district levies one owes it in addition to everything shown here, which is why the totals on this page are a municipal position rather than a complete local one.
- Only municipal income tax is modeled. Ohio's state income tax, federal income tax and payroll taxes all apply in addition and are invariant to the boundary between Akron and Euclid, which is precisely why they are excluded: isolating the layer that responds to the commute is the point of the comparison. A complete tax position requires adding them; a comparison of the two locations does not.
- Dollar figures are computed against a stated reference salary of sixty thousand rather than a municipal wage average, which no published source provides for Ohio municipalities. Both rates and the credit ceiling are proportional to income, so every figure scales linearly: the Akron to Euclid differential doubles at twice the salary and halves at half of it, and the rate relationship holds at every level. The one caveat is that whether the ceiling binds at all is itself scale-invariant here, because it too is expressed as a share of income rather than as a fixed dollar cap.
Questions people ask
Do I pay local tax twice — once where I work and once where I live?
You are taxed by both, then given credit for one. Working in Euclid costs about 2.85%; living in Akron costs about 2.5%, reduced by whatever share of the work tax the home city recognizes.
What does crossing this boundary actually cost me?
Working across the line costs $210 a year here. The same salary earned in Akron would not carry it.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
536 people travel it. Volume decides whether a route gets published at all, never what the tax on it is.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Euclid on the basis of work location at about 2.85%, Akron on residence at about 2.5%. The residence municipality grants a credit for tax paid to the work municipality, commonly capped as a share of income. Net liability is the residence tax less that credit, floored at zero, plus the work tax.
What is the marginal local tax cost of this commute?
Marginal annual liability attributable to working outside the residence jurisdiction is $210 at the reference salary. This is a tax cost rather than a commuting expense and is not deductible as one. It scales with income and with the rate differential, not with distance traveled.
What is the measurement basis for a route of this size?
Route volume is 536 workers per Census LODES, above the publication floor but below the dataset's upper quartile. Liability is determined by jurisdictional rates and residence rules alone; commuter volume has no bearing on it and is reported only as context.