Cuyahoga Falls to Hudson
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Cuyahoga Falls ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2%
Hudson, on income earned there
Home city charges
2%
Cuyahoga Falls, residents
Credit back
$1,200
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$0
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
no extra local taxCuyahoga Falls credits only part of what Hudson takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Cuyahoga Falls 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
- Here is the good news. Working in Hudson costs you nothing extra in local tax. Cuyahoga Falls charges residents about 2%, and it credits back every dollar Hudson collects from you. Either way your bill is $1,200 a year. What changes is which city keeps the money, not how much of it you hand over.
- Nothing to pay, and nothing to spare. Cuyahoga Falls's credit stops precisely where Hudson's tax stops. The two cancel exactly, which is a comfortable place to be and a fragile one.
- Hudson draws workers from 3 places in this data, and Cuyahoga Falls is 3 of them by size, with about 883 people. It is a short list. Smaller routes into the city exist below the counting threshold.
- This pairing is neutral to the worker. Hudson withholds about 2% on income earned there, and Cuyahoga Falls, which levies about 2% on residents, credits that payment in full without reaching its own ceiling. Liability at the reference salary is therefore $1,200 — precisely what the same earnings would attract with no commute at all. What the arrangement alters is the division of revenue between Hudson and Cuyahoga Falls, not the sum leaving the worker's pay.
- This pairing sits exactly on its limit. Hudson's rate and the ceiling Cuyahoga Falls places on its credit coincide to the cent, so the credit absorbs the work-city tax precisely and not a dollar further. The commute is costless today and has no margin whatsoever: any increase by Hudson, or any reduction in the ceiling by Cuyahoga Falls, falls directly on the worker from the first dollar.
- Hudson records 3 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Cuyahoga Falls ranks 3 by worker count at approximately 883. 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
| Hudson takes, on income earned there | $1,200 |
|---|---|
| Cuyahoga Falls charges residents | $1,200 |
| Less the credit Cuyahoga Falls gives back | $1,200 |
| Total local tax | $1,200 |
| If you also lived in Hudson | $1,200 |
| 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
- Do not add the two rates up, and do not assume the bigger one simply wins. Neither is how Ohio works. Both Hudson and Cuyahoga Falls charge you. Cuyahoga Falls may then hand back what Hudson 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 Cuyahoga Falls, not to the state. Its council sets it and its council can change it. Nothing needs to happen in Hudson 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 Cuyahoga Falls rather than your workplace in Hudson, and it is not credited against anything.
- 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 Cuyahoga Falls and Hudson. 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 Cuyahoga Falls 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 Hudson 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. Hudson taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Cuyahoga Falls taxes its residents on everything, and Cuyahoga Falls then credits some, all or none of what Hudson collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Cuyahoga Falls rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Cuyahoga Falls's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Cuyahoga Falls 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 Cuyahoga Falls can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Hudson 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 Hudson, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Cuyahoga Falls 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 Cuyahoga Falls and Hudson, 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 Cuyahoga Falls to Hudson 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 Hudson costs about 2%; living in Cuyahoga Falls costs about 2%, reduced by whatever share of the work tax the home city recognizes.
Does working in a different town cost me anything?
Not a cent on this one. The crossing changes where the money is sent, not how much of it leaves, so your total matches a stay-at-home commute.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
883 workers make this journey — enough to be published, but not a major corridor. The tax rules do not depend on how many people travel a route, so the figures hold regardless; the count only tells you how typical this pairing is.
Both towns charge the same — does the boundary matter at all then?
The rates match at about 2%, so the crossing moves money between authorities rather than out of your pocket.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Hudson on the basis of work location at about 2%, Cuyahoga Falls 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.
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 measurement basis for a route of this size?
Route volume is 883 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.
What is the effect of identical rates either side of the boundary?
Both jurisdictions levy about 2%, so the governing rate is identical regardless of which rule allocates it. The boundary affects revenue attribution between authorities, not employee liability.