Broadview Heights to Cleveland
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Broadview Heights ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2.5%
Cleveland, on income earned there
Home city charges
2%
Broadview Heights, residents
Credit back
$1,125
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$375
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
partial creditBroadview Heights credits only part of what Cleveland takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Broadview Heights 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
- Read your own city's rule closely, because Broadview Heights does not credit in full. It allows about 75% of the tax Cleveland has already collected. Anything above that share you pay again at home. The commute adds $375 to the year, bringing local tax to $1,575.
- Cleveland pulls workers in from 66 different places, and this route from Broadview Heights ranks 21 of them by size. About 2,516 people travel it. Being busier does not make it cheaper. The rate you pay depends on your home city, not on how crowded your road is.
- This is a well-traveled road. About 2,516 people go from Broadview Heights to work in Cleveland. That is a lot of households meeting the same rule at the same time.
- Broadview Heights credits only part of what its residents pay elsewhere. Its ordinance allows about 75% of tax paid to another municipality, and on this pairing that share, rather than the income ceiling, is what limits the relief. Against $1,500 withheld by Cleveland, the credit returns $1,125, leaving Broadview Heights to collect the balance of its about 2% resident levy. The workplace accounts for $375; the year's local total is $1,575.
- Cleveland is a major regional workplace, drawing recorded flows from 66 separate origins in this dataset. The route from Broadview Heights ranks 21 among them by worker count, at roughly 2,516. Rank is not a proxy for tax outcome: every origin faces the same Cleveland rate, and what differs between them is the home municipality's credit, so a smaller route can carry a considerably worse result than a larger one.
- Census origin-destination statistics record approximately 2,516 workers commuting from Broadview Heights to Cleveland, placing this among the larger intra-state flows in Ohio. The outcome set out above therefore has aggregate fiscal consequence for both municipalities, not merely individual consequence for the worker: the credit Broadview Heights does or does not extend is applied to every one of them at once.
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
| Cleveland takes, on income earned there | $1,500 |
|---|---|
| Broadview Heights charges residents | $1,200 |
| Less the credit Broadview Heights gives back | $1,125 |
| Total local tax | $1,575 |
| If you also lived in Cleveland | $1,200 |
| Difference | $375 |
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
- Here is the shape of it, because the arithmetic is easy to get wrong. You are taxed by both cities. What happens next is up to Broadview Heights: it may credit all of what Cleveland took, some of it, or none at all. That choice belongs to the city rather than to the state, which is why identical salaries in neighboring towns land so differently.
- The credit rule on this page belongs to Broadview Heights, not to the state. Its council sets it and its council can change it. Nothing needs to happen in Cleveland or at the state level for these numbers to move. Check the current rule before you rely on it.
- This page covers city income tax only. Your school district may charge its own on top, and many in Ohio do. That one follows your address in Broadview Heights rather than your workplace in Cleveland, and it is not credited against anything.
- Do not read this as your whole tax bill. It is the part that answers to the commute between Broadview Heights and Cleveland. State and federal tax carry on regardless, unchanged by which side of a city line your desk is on.
- Every dollar amount here uses a salary of sixty thousand a year. It is a benchmark, not a guess at what people in Broadview Heights 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 Cleveland 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. Cleveland taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Broadview Heights taxes its residents on everything, and Broadview Heights then credits some, all or none of what Cleveland collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Broadview Heights rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Broadview Heights's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Broadview Heights 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 Broadview Heights can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Cleveland 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 Cleveland, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Broadview Heights 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 Broadview Heights and Cleveland, 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 Broadview Heights to Cleveland 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?
Both places charge you, but the city you live in gives back some of what the other one took. Cleveland taxes you for working there at about 2.5%; Broadview Heights then charges its own about 2% and credits part of the first against it. Whether anything is left over depends on how generous that credit is.
What does crossing this boundary actually cost me?
$375 a year more than if you worked where you live. It is not a commuting charge and it buys you nothing — it is what falls out of two jurisdictions both having a claim and only one of them yielding.
Why does my home town not credit the whole of what the other one took?
Full credit would mean Broadview Heights collecting nothing from anyone who works out of town. Councils rarely do that, and the shortfall is what a commuter pays.
Is this a common enough commute to be worth modeling?
2,516 workers make it. The pairing comes from federal commuting data rather than from guesswork, and thin routes are excluded rather than estimated.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Cleveland on the basis of work location at about 2.5%, Broadview Heights on residence at about 2%. 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 $375 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.
Why is the residence credit less than the full work-district tax?
Credit rates and ceilings are set by the residence municipality, not by state law. A full credit would forgo residence-based revenue from every outbound commuter, so credits are commonly partial or capped as a share of income. The uncredited remainder is the commuter's marginal cost.
What is the basis for including this route?
Route volume is 2,516 workers, sourced from Census LODES origin-destination data. Pairs below the publication threshold are excluded rather than imputed, so page existence reflects measured commuting volume.