Springfield Township to Akron
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Springfield Township ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2.5%
Akron, on income earned there
Home city charges
2.4%
Springfield Township, residents
Credit back
$750
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$750
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
partial creditSpringfield Township credits only part of what Akron takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Springfield 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 Akron withholds $1,500 from your pay. Springfield Township returns $750 of that and keeps the rest of its own claim on you. So the commute is not free. It costs $750 more than staying put would.
- Plenty of towns feed Akron. There are 19 of them in this data, and Springfield Township ranks 8 by worker count with roughly 1,504 making the trip. The size of a route tells you about traffic. It tells you nothing about the tax.
- Around 1,504 workers make this trip from Springfield Township into Akron. It is one of the busier commutes in the state, which is part of why it gets a page of its own.
- Springfield Township credits only part of what its residents pay elsewhere. Its ordinance allows about 50% of tax paid to another municipality, and on this pairing that share, rather than the income ceiling, is what limits the relief. Against $1,500 withheld by Akron, the credit returns $750, leaving Springfield Township to collect the balance of its about 2.4% resident levy. The workplace accounts for $750; the year's local total is $2,190.
- Akron is a major regional workplace, drawing recorded flows from 19 separate origins in this dataset. The route from Springfield Township ranks 8 among them by worker count, at roughly 1,504. Rank is not a proxy for tax outcome: every origin faces the same Akron rate, and what differs between them is the home municipality's credit, so a smaller route can carry a considerably worse result than a larger one.
- Census origin-destination statistics record approximately 1,504 workers commuting from Springfield Township to Akron, placing this among the larger intra-state flows in Ohio. The outcome set out above therefore has aggregate fiscal consequence for both municipalities, not merely individual consequence for the worker: the credit Springfield Township does or does not extend is applied to every one of them at once.
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
| Akron takes, on income earned there | $1,500 |
|---|---|
| Springfield Township charges residents | $1,440 |
| Less the credit Springfield Township gives back | $750 |
| Total local tax | $2,190 |
| If you also lived in Akron | $1,440 |
| Difference | $750 |
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. Akron taxes what you earn there, Springfield Township taxes everything you earn, and then Springfield Township decides how much of the first bill to give back.
- One thing to keep in mind. Ohio does not require Springfield Township to give any credit at all. That choice sits with the city, and cities revisit it. A vote in Springfield Township could change what this commute to Akron costs you, with no change in the law itself.
- Watch for one more local tax. School district income tax is separate from what Springfield Township and Akron 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 Springfield Township and Akron. 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 Springfield 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 Akron 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. Akron taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Springfield Township taxes its residents on everything, and Springfield Township then credits some, all or none of what Akron collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Springfield Township rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Springfield Township's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Springfield 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 Springfield Township can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Akron 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 Akron, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Springfield 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 Springfield Township and Akron, 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 Springfield Township to Akron 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?
Two claims, one partly canceled. Akron takes about 2.5% because you work there, Springfield Township charges about 2.4% because you live there, and the home city credits some of the first against the second.
What does crossing this boundary actually cost me?
About $750 a year. That is the gap between this commute and an identical job in Springfield Township, and it exists purely because the boundary sits between them.
Why does my home town not credit the whole of what the other one took?
Because the credit is set locally, and Springfield Township chose not to make it whole. A city that credits everything gives up revenue from every resident who works elsewhere, so most cap it — which is exactly where a commuter's extra cost comes from.
Is this a common enough commute to be worth modeling?
1,504 workers make it. The pairing comes from federal commuting data rather than from guesswork, and thin routes are excluded rather than estimated.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Akron on the basis of work location at about 2.5%, Springfield Township on residence at about 2.4%. 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 $750 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 basis for including this route?
Route volume is 1,504 workers, sourced from Census LODES origin-destination data. Pairs below the publication threshold are excluded rather than imputed, so page existence reflects measured commuting volume.