Cincinnati to St. Bernard Village
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Cincinnati ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2.1%
St. Bernard Village, on income earned there
Home city charges
1.8%
Cincinnati, residents
Credit back
$1,080
capped by the ceiling
Cost of the commute
$180
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
ceiling bindsCincinnati'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 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
- Cincinnati does credit you for the tax St. Bernard Village takes. It just stops early. The credit cannot pass about 1.8% of your income, and St. Bernard Village charges more than that, so it runs out before the bill does. Working there costs $180 a year more than working at home would. All in, local tax is $1,260.
- No other commute into St. Bernard Village is big enough to appear here, so there is nothing to rank this one against. The route from Cincinnati carries around 763 workers. Smaller streams get folded away by the counting rules rather than by the map.
- The credit here is real but bounded. Cincinnati allows residents about 100% of tax paid to another municipality, subject to a ceiling of about 1.8% of income, and on this pairing it is the ceiling rather than the share that binds. St. Bernard Village withholds $1,260 at about 2.1%; Cincinnati returns $1,080 of that and collects the remainder of its own about 1.8% resident levy. The workplace accordingly costs $180 above the home-only position, against a total of $1,260.
- Within this dataset St. Bernard Village draws a single recorded commuting flow of qualifying size — the one from Cincinnati, carrying roughly 763 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
| St. Bernard Village takes, on income earned there | $1,260 |
|---|---|
| Cincinnati charges residents | $1,080 |
| Less the credit Cincinnati gives back | $1,080 |
| Total local tax | $1,260 |
| If you also lived in St. Bernard Village | $1,080 |
| Difference | $180 |
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 Cincinnati: it may credit all of what St. Bernard Village 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 Cincinnati, not to the state. Its council sets it and its council can change it. Nothing needs to happen in St. Bernard Village 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 Cincinnati rather than your workplace in St. Bernard Village, 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 Cincinnati and St. Bernard Village. 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 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 St. Bernard 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. St. Bernard Village taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Cincinnati taxes its residents on everything, and Cincinnati then credits some, all or none of what St. Bernard 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 St. Bernard 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 St. Bernard 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 St. Bernard 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 St. Bernard 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?
Both places charge you, but the city you live in gives back some of what the other one took. St. Bernard Village taxes you for working there at about 2.1%; Cincinnati then charges its own about 1.8% 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?
About $180 a year. That is the gap between this commute and an identical job in Cincinnati, and it exists purely because the boundary sits between them.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
It is a smaller route: 763 workers. That affects how representative it is, not whether the tax arithmetic applies — the rules are the same on a quiet road as a busy one.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: St. Bernard Village on the basis of work location at about 2.1%, 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.
What is the marginal local tax cost of this commute?
Marginal annual liability attributable to working outside the residence jurisdiction is $180 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 763 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.