Ravenna Township to Ravenna
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Ravenna Township ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2.5%
Ravenna, on income earned there
Home city charges
2.5%
Ravenna Township, residents
Credit back
$1,500
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$0
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
no extra local taxRavenna Township credits only part of what Ravenna takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Ravenna 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
- Some Ohio commutes cost you real money. This one does not. Ravenna Township gives full credit for the tax Ravenna takes out of your pay, so the two settle down to the same bill you would owe at home. On sixty thousand that is $1,500 for the year. The commute shifts money between city halls and leaves your total alone.
- This one is balanced on a knife edge. What Ravenna takes is exactly what Ravenna Township is willing to credit — no more. It costs you nothing today. It would cost you from the very first dollar if either city moved its rate.
- Ravenna shows just one commuting route in this data, and it starts in Ravenna Township. Roughly 523 people make the trip. That is not the whole picture of who works there, only the part large enough to be published.
- This pairing is neutral to the worker. Ravenna withholds about 2.5% on income earned there, and Ravenna Township, which levies about 2.5% on residents, credits that payment in full without reaching its own ceiling. Liability at the reference salary is therefore $1,500 — precisely what the same earnings would attract with no commute at all. What the arrangement alters is the division of revenue between Ravenna and Ravenna Township, not the sum leaving the worker's pay.
- This pairing sits exactly on its limit. Ravenna's rate and the ceiling Ravenna Township 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 Ravenna, or any reduction in the ceiling by Ravenna Township, falls directly on the worker from the first dollar.
- Within this dataset Ravenna draws a single recorded commuting flow of qualifying size — the one from Ravenna Township, carrying roughly 523 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
| Ravenna takes, on income earned there | $1,500 |
|---|---|
| Ravenna Township charges residents | $1,500 |
| Less the credit Ravenna Township gives back | $1,500 |
| Total local tax | $1,500 |
| If you also lived in Ravenna | $1,500 |
| 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 Ravenna and Ravenna Township charge you. Ravenna Township may then hand back what Ravenna took, or part of it, or none of it. Everything on this page turns on which of those it does.
- These figures rest on a local rule, not a state one. Ravenna Township decides how much credit to give for tax already paid to Ravenna. 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 Ravenna Township and Ravenna charge, and plenty of Ohio districts levy it. Working elsewhere makes no difference to it, and no credit offsets it.
- Do not read this as your whole tax bill. It is the part that answers to the commute between Ravenna Township and Ravenna. 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 Ravenna Township 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 Ravenna 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. Ravenna taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Ravenna Township taxes its residents on everything, and Ravenna Township then credits some, all or none of what Ravenna collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Ravenna Township rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Ravenna Township's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Ravenna 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 Ravenna Township can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Ravenna 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 Ravenna, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Ravenna 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 Ravenna Township and Ravenna, 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 Ravenna Township to Ravenna 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 Ravenna costs about 2.5%; living in Ravenna Township costs about 2.5%, reduced by whatever share of the work tax the home city recognizes.
Does working in a different town cost me anything?
Nothing extra. The tax is redirected rather than increased, so this particular crossing costs you no more than working in Ravenna Township would.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
523 people travel it. Volume decides whether a route gets published at all, never what the tax on it is.
Both towns charge the same — does the boundary matter at all then?
Not to your total. Ravenna Township and Ravenna both levy about 2.5%, 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: Ravenna on the basis of work location at about 2.5%, Ravenna Township on residence at about 2.5%. 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 523 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 2.5%, so the governing rate is identical regardless of which rule allocates it. The boundary affects revenue attribution between authorities, not employee liability.