Dublin to Hilliard
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Dublin ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2.5%
Hilliard, on income earned there
Home city charges
2%
Dublin, residents
Credit back
$1,200
capped by the ceiling
Cost of the commute
$300
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
ceiling bindsDublin'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 Dublin 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
- There is a ceiling on this, and you have hit it. Dublin will credit tax paid to Hilliard, but only up to about 2% of what you earn. Past that point you pay Dublin too. The gap runs to $300 over a year, on top of $1,500 already withheld where you work.
- This data records 2 commutes into Hilliard, and the one from Dublin ranks 2, carrying roughly 634 workers. That is a handful of routes rather than a full map of who works there.
- The credit here is real but bounded. Dublin allows residents about 100% of tax paid to another municipality, subject to a ceiling of about 2% of income, and on this pairing it is the ceiling rather than the share that binds. Hilliard withholds $1,500 at about 2.5%; Dublin returns $1,200 of that and collects the remainder of its own about 2% resident levy. The workplace accordingly costs $300 above the home-only position, against a total of $1,500.
- Hilliard records 2 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Dublin ranks 2 by worker count at approximately 634. 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
| Hilliard takes, on income earned there | $1,500 |
|---|---|
| Dublin charges residents | $1,200 |
| Less the credit Dublin gives back | $1,200 |
| Total local tax | $1,500 |
| If you also lived in Hilliard | $1,200 |
| Difference | $300 |
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 Dublin: it may credit all of what Hilliard 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.
- One thing to keep in mind. Ohio does not require Dublin to give any credit at all. That choice sits with the city, and cities revisit it. A vote in Dublin could change what this commute to Hilliard costs you, with no change in the law itself.
- 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 Hilliard, and the credit from Dublin does not touch it. If your district charges one, add it to everything here.
- These figures are the local layer alone. Whatever Dublin and Hilliard 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.
- Sixty thousand a year is the assumption behind the dollars. It is stated rather than measured. No wage figure exists for a place the size of Dublin. The percentages are the durable part of this page, and they do not shift with what you earn in Hilliard.
- 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. Hilliard taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Dublin taxes its residents on everything, and Dublin then credits some, all or none of what Hilliard collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Dublin rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Dublin's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Dublin 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 Dublin can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Hilliard 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 Hilliard, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Dublin 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 Dublin and Hilliard, 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 Dublin to Hilliard 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. Hilliard taxes you for working there at about 2.5%; Dublin 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?
About $300 a year. That is the gap between this commute and an identical job in Dublin, and it exists purely because the boundary sits between them.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
634 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.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Hilliard on the basis of work location at about 2.5%, Dublin 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 $300 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 634 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.