Medina Township to Medina
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Medina Township ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
1.25%
Medina, on income earned there
Home city charges
1.25%
Medina Township, residents
Credit back
$188
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$563
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
partial creditMedina Township credits only part of what Medina takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Medina Township 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
- Partial credit is the catch in this one. Over a year Medina withholds $750 from your pay. Medina Township returns $188 of that and keeps the rest of its own claim on you. So the commute is not free. It costs $563 more than staying put would.
- This data records 2 commutes into Medina, and the one from Medina Township ranks 2, carrying roughly 569 workers. That is a handful of routes rather than a full map of who works there.
- Medina Township credits only part of what its residents pay elsewhere. Its ordinance allows about 25% of tax paid to another municipality, and on this pairing that share, rather than the income ceiling, is what limits the relief. Against $750 withheld by Medina, the credit returns $188, leaving Medina Township to collect the balance of its about 1.25% resident levy. The workplace accounts for $563; the year's local total is $1,313.
- Medina records 2 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Medina Township ranks 2 by worker count at approximately 569. 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
| Medina takes, on income earned there | $750 |
|---|---|
| Medina Township charges residents | $750 |
| Less the credit Medina Township gives back | $188 |
| Total local tax | $1,313 |
| If you also lived in Medina | $750 |
| Difference | $563 |
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. Medina taxes what you earn there, Medina Township taxes everything you earn, and then Medina Township decides how much of the first bill to give back.
- These figures rest on a local rule, not a state one. Medina Township decides how much credit to give for tax already paid to Medina. It is worth confirming the current position with the city or its collection agency, because this is the part most likely to have changed.
- Watch for one more local tax. School district income tax is separate from what Medina Township and Medina charge, and plenty of Ohio districts levy it. Working elsewhere makes no difference to it, and no credit offsets it.
- 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 Medina Township and Medina. That is exactly why they are left out.
- 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 Medina Township. The percentages are the durable part of this page, and they do not shift with what you earn in Medina.
- 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. Medina taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Medina Township taxes its residents on everything, and Medina Township then credits some, all or none of what Medina collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Medina Township rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Medina Township's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Medina Township 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 Medina Township can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Medina 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 Medina, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Medina Township 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 Medina Township and Medina, 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 Medina Township to Medina 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 Medina costs about 1.25%; living in Medina Township costs about 1.25%, reduced by whatever share of the work tax the home city recognizes.
What does crossing this boundary actually cost me?
Working across the line costs $563 a year here. The same salary earned in Medina Township would not carry it.
Why does my home town not credit the whole of what the other one took?
It is a local choice, and a costly one to make generous. Crediting in full would surrender the tax on every resident working outside Medina Township, so the credit is capped and the remainder lands on you.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
It is a smaller route: 569 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.
Both towns charge the same — does the boundary matter at all then?
Not to your total. Medina Township and Medina both levy about 1.25%, so the amount is settled either way — what the boundary decides is which authority receives it, and that is an accounting question rather than a cost to you.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Medina on the basis of work location at about 1.25%, Medina Township on residence at about 1.25%. 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 $563 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 measurement basis for a route of this size?
Route volume is 569 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 1.25%, so the governing rate is identical regardless of which rule allocates it. The boundary affects revenue attribution between authorities, not employee liability.