Tallmadge to Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Tallmadge ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2%
Cuyahoga Falls, on income earned there
Home city charges
2.25%
Tallmadge, residents
Credit back
$1,200
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$0
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
no extra local taxTallmadge credits only part of what Cuyahoga Falls takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Tallmadge 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
- You can stop worrying about this one. Tallmadge credits everything Cuyahoga Falls withholds, right up to its own rate of about 2.25%. Crossing the line to work adds nothing. Local income tax comes to $1,350 for the year, exactly as it would if the job were on your own street.
- This is closer than it looks. Tallmadge covers what Cuyahoga Falls takes, but only up to a limit, and Cuyahoga Falls is $150 a year short of it. Raise the work rate past that and the commute stops being free.
- This route from Tallmadge is 3 of 3 recorded commutes into Cuyahoga Falls, with around 594 people on it. Treat the ranking loosely. Only flows above a certain size are published at all.
- This pairing is neutral to the worker. Cuyahoga Falls withholds about 2% on income earned there, and Tallmadge, which levies about 2.25% on residents, credits that payment in full without reaching its own ceiling. Liability at the reference salary is therefore $1,350 — precisely what the same earnings would attract with no commute at all. What the arrangement alters is the division of revenue between Cuyahoga Falls and Tallmadge, not the sum leaving the worker's pay.
- The margin is worth knowing, because it is not large. Tallmadge credits tax paid to Cuyahoga Falls only up to a ceiling set as a share of income, and Cuyahoga Falls's levy currently sits below it with $150 of annual room to spare at the reference salary. Were Cuyahoga Falls to raise its rate past that point, the excess would cease to be credited and would fall on the worker rather than on either treasury.
- Cuyahoga Falls records 3 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Tallmadge ranks 3 by worker count at approximately 594. 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
| Cuyahoga Falls takes, on income earned there | $1,200 |
|---|---|
| Tallmadge charges residents | $1,350 |
| Less the credit Tallmadge gives back | $1,200 |
| Total local tax | $1,350 |
| If you also lived in Cuyahoga Falls | $1,350 |
| 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
- 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. Cuyahoga Falls taxes what you earn there, Tallmadge taxes everything you earn, and then Tallmadge decides how much of the first bill to give back.
- These figures rest on a local rule, not a state one. Tallmadge decides how much credit to give for tax already paid to Cuyahoga Falls. 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 Tallmadge and Cuyahoga Falls charge, and plenty of Ohio districts levy it. Working elsewhere makes no difference to it, and no credit offsets it.
- These figures are the local layer alone. Whatever Tallmadge and Cuyahoga Falls 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.
- Every dollar amount here uses a salary of sixty thousand a year. It is a benchmark, not a guess at what people in Tallmadge 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 Cuyahoga Falls 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. Cuyahoga Falls taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Tallmadge taxes its residents on everything, and Tallmadge then credits some, all or none of what Cuyahoga Falls collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Tallmadge rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Tallmadge's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Tallmadge 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 Tallmadge can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Cuyahoga Falls 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 Cuyahoga Falls, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Tallmadge 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 Tallmadge and Cuyahoga Falls, 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 Tallmadge to Cuyahoga Falls 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 Cuyahoga Falls costs about 2%; living in Tallmadge costs about 2.25%, reduced by whatever share of the work tax the home city recognizes.
Does working in a different town cost me anything?
Not a cent on this one. The crossing changes where the money is sent, not how much of it leaves, so your total matches a stay-at-home commute.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
594 people travel it. Volume decides whether a route gets published at all, never what the tax on it is.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Cuyahoga Falls on the basis of work location at about 2%, Tallmadge on residence at about 2.25%. 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.
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 594 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.