Newark to Granville Village
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Newark ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
1.5%
Granville Village, on income earned there
Home city charges
1.75%
Newark, residents
Credit back
$600
capped by the ceiling
Cost of the commute
$300
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
ceiling bindsNewark'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 Newark 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. Newark will credit tax paid to Granville Village, but only up to about 1% of what you earn. Past that point you pay Newark too. The gap runs to $300 over a year, on top of $900 already withheld where you work.
- Granville Village shows just one commuting route in this data, and it starts in Newark. Roughly 577 people make the trip. That is not the whole picture of who works there, only the part large enough to be published.
- The credit here is real but bounded. Newark allows residents about 100% of tax paid to another municipality, subject to a ceiling of about 1% of income, and on this pairing it is the ceiling rather than the share that binds. Granville Village withholds $900 at about 1.5%; Newark returns $600 of that and collects the remainder of its own about 1.75% resident levy. The workplace accordingly costs $300 above the home-only position, against a total of $1,350.
- Within this dataset Granville Village draws a single recorded commuting flow of qualifying size — the one from Newark, carrying roughly 577 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
| Granville Village takes, on income earned there | $900 |
|---|---|
| Newark charges residents | $1,050 |
| Less the credit Newark gives back | $600 |
| Total local tax | $1,350 |
| If you also lived in Granville Village | $1,050 |
| 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
- 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. Granville Village taxes what you earn there, Newark taxes everything you earn, and then Newark decides how much of the first bill to give back.
- The credit rule on this page belongs to Newark, not to the state. Its council sets it and its council can change it. Nothing needs to happen in Granville 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 Newark rather than your workplace in Granville Village, 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 Newark and Granville Village. 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 Newark. The percentages are the durable part of this page, and they do not shift with what you earn in Granville Village.
- 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. Granville Village taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Newark taxes its residents on everything, and Newark then credits some, all or none of what Granville Village collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Newark rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Newark's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Newark 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 Newark can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Granville 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 Granville Village, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Newark 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 Newark and Granville 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 Newark to Granville 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?
You are taxed by both, then given credit for one. Working in Granville Village costs about 1.5%; living in Newark costs about 1.75%, reduced by whatever share of the work tax the home city recognizes.
What does crossing this boundary actually cost me?
About $300 a year. That is the gap between this commute and an identical job in Newark, and it exists purely because the boundary sits between them.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
577 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: Granville Village on the basis of work location at about 1.5%, Newark on residence at about 1.75%. 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 577 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.