Toledo to Perrysburg
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Toledo ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
1.5%
Perrysburg, on income earned there
Home city charges
2.5%
Toledo, residents
Credit back
$900
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$0
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
no extra local taxToledo credits only part of what Perrysburg takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Toledo 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
- Here is the good news. Working in Perrysburg costs you nothing extra in local tax. Toledo charges residents about 2.5%, and it credits back every dollar Perrysburg collects from you. Either way your bill is $1,500 a year. What changes is which city keeps the money, not how much of it you hand over.
- There is room here, and it is measurable. Perrysburg could take another $600 a year from you before Toledo's credit ran out. Until then the two cities settle it between themselves and you pay what you would have paid at home.
- No other commute into Perrysburg is big enough to appear here, so there is nothing to rank this one against. The route from Toledo carries around 2,918 workers. Smaller streams get folded away by the counting rules rather than by the map.
- Roughly 2,918 people travel from Toledo to Perrysburg for work. Multiply one household's answer by that, and the credit rule stops being a detail.
- This pairing is neutral to the worker. Perrysburg withholds about 1.5% on income earned there, and Toledo, 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 Perrysburg and Toledo, not the sum leaving the worker's pay.
- The margin is worth knowing, because it is not large. Toledo credits tax paid to Perrysburg only up to a ceiling set as a share of income, and Perrysburg's levy currently sits below it with $600 of annual room to spare at the reference salary. Were Perrysburg 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.
- Within this dataset Perrysburg draws a single recorded commuting flow of qualifying size — the one from Toledo, carrying roughly 2,918 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.
- Census origin-destination statistics record approximately 2,918 workers commuting from Toledo to Perrysburg, 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 Toledo 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
| Perrysburg takes, on income earned there | $900 |
|---|---|
| Toledo charges residents | $1,500 |
| Less the credit Toledo gives back | $900 |
| Total local tax | $1,500 |
| If you also lived in Perrysburg | $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
- 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. Perrysburg taxes what you earn there, Toledo taxes everything you earn, and then Toledo decides how much of the first bill to give back.
- One thing to keep in mind. Ohio does not require Toledo to give any credit at all. That choice sits with the city, and cities revisit it. A vote in Toledo could change what this commute to Perrysburg costs you, with no change in the law itself.
- Ohio has a second local tax that is not on this page. Some school districts levy their own income tax. It depends on where you live, not on your job in Perrysburg, and the credit from Toledo does not touch it. If your district charges one, add it to everything here.
- 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 Toledo and Perrysburg. That is exactly why they are left out.
- The dollar figures rest on one assumed salary, sixty thousand. Double your pay and they double. Halve it and they halve. What stays put is the relationship between what Perrysburg charges and what Toledo gives back, which is the part worth carrying away.
- 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. Perrysburg taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Toledo taxes its residents on everything, and Toledo then credits some, all or none of what Perrysburg collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Toledo rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Toledo's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Toledo 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 Toledo can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Perrysburg 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 Perrysburg, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Toledo 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 Toledo and Perrysburg, 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 Toledo to Perrysburg 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. Perrysburg takes about 1.5% because you work there, Toledo charges about 2.5% because you live there, and the home city credits some of the first against the second.
Does working in a different town cost me anything?
On this route, nothing. You owe exactly what you would have owed working at home — the boundary is real on a map and invisible on your pay stub, which is not true of every pair of towns here.
Is this a common enough commute to be worth modeling?
Yes — 2,918 people make this exact journey, according to the federal employment survey that tracks where workers live against where they work. Routes below a volume floor are not published, so a page existing here means the commute is real and measured.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Perrysburg on the basis of work location at about 1.5%, Toledo 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 basis for including this route?
Route volume is 2,918 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.