Cincinnati to Evendale Village
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Cincinnati ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
1.2%
Evendale Village, on income earned there
Home city charges
1.8%
Cincinnati, residents
Credit back
$720
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$0
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
no extra local taxCincinnati credits only part of what Evendale Village takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Cincinnati 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
- You can stop worrying about this one. Cincinnati credits everything Evendale Village withholds, right up to its own rate of about 1.8%. Crossing the line to work adds nothing. Local income tax comes to $1,080 for the year, exactly as it would if the job were on your own street.
- Worth watching rather than worrying about. The credit from Cincinnati runs out once Evendale Village takes more than the ceiling allows, and today there is $360 a year of slack. A rate rise in Evendale Village would eat into that first, and into your pay after.
- This is the only route into Evendale Village large enough to show up in the data. About 1,291 people travel it from Cincinnati. Other people commute there too. Their numbers are simply too small to be counted separately.
- This pairing is neutral to the worker. Evendale Village withholds about 1.2% on income earned there, and Cincinnati, which levies about 1.8% on residents, credits that payment in full without reaching its own ceiling. Liability at the reference salary is therefore $1,080 — precisely what the same earnings would attract with no commute at all. What the arrangement alters is the division of revenue between Evendale Village and Cincinnati, not the sum leaving the worker's pay.
- The margin is worth knowing, because it is not large. Cincinnati credits tax paid to Evendale Village only up to a ceiling set as a share of income, and Evendale Village's levy currently sits below it with $360 of annual room to spare at the reference salary. Were Evendale Village to raise its rate past that point, the excess would cease to be credited and would fall on the worker rather than on either treasury.
- Within this dataset Evendale Village draws a single recorded commuting flow of qualifying size — the one from Cincinnati, carrying roughly 1,291 workers. That reflects the reporting floor rather than the labor market: smaller flows certainly exist and fall below the threshold at which Census origin-destination statistics are published. No ranking against sibling routes is therefore available for this workplace.
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
| Evendale Village takes, on income earned there | $720 |
|---|---|
| Cincinnati charges residents | $1,080 |
| Less the credit Cincinnati gives back | $720 |
| Total local tax | $1,080 |
| If you also lived in Evendale Village | $1,080 |
| Difference | $0 |
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
- Two guesses about this are wrong, and they miss in opposite directions. The rates are not added together. Nor do you simply pay whichever is higher, which is how it works across the border in Pennsylvania. Evendale Village taxes what you earn there, Cincinnati taxes everything you earn, and then Cincinnati decides how much of the first bill to give back.
- The credit rule on this page belongs to Cincinnati, not to the state. Its council sets it and its council can change it. Nothing needs to happen in Evendale Village 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 Evendale Village, and the credit from Cincinnati does not touch it. If your district charges one, add it to everything here.
- One tax is on this page and it is the city one. State tax, federal tax and Social Security all still come out of your pay. None of them change when you cross the line between Cincinnati and Evendale Village. That is exactly why they are left out.
- Every dollar amount here uses a salary of sixty thousand a year. It is a benchmark, not a guess at what people in Cincinnati 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 Evendale Village 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. Evendale Village taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Cincinnati taxes its residents on everything, and Cincinnati then credits some, all or none of what Evendale Village collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Cincinnati rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Cincinnati's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Evendale Village 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 Evendale Village, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati and Evendale Village, 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 Cincinnati to Evendale Village 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?
Two claims, one partly canceled. Evendale Village takes about 1.2% because you work there, Cincinnati charges about 1.8% because you live there, and the home city credits some of the first against the second.
Does working in a different town cost me anything?
On this route, nothing. You owe exactly what you would have owed working at home — the boundary is real on a map and invisible on your pay stub, which is not true of every pair of towns here.
Is this a common enough commute to be worth modeling?
1,291 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: Evendale Village on the basis of work location at about 1.2%, Cincinnati on residence at about 1.8%. 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.
Why is the marginal cost of this crossing zero?
Marginal liability from working outside the residence jurisdiction is zero on this route. The crossing alters the distribution of revenue between jurisdictions but not the employee's total. ⚠️ This is route-specific and does not generalise to other pairs in the same dataset.
What is the basis for including this route?
Route volume is 1,291 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.