Warren to Youngstown
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Warren ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2.75%
Youngstown, on income earned there
Home city charges
2.5%
Warren, residents
Credit back
$1,500
capped by the ceiling
Cost of the commute
$150
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
ceiling bindsWarren'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 Warren 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
- A credit with a ceiling is not a full credit. Warren hands back $1,500 of what Youngstown took and then stops, because its own rules cap the credit at about 2.5% of income. You make up the difference yourself. Over a year that difference is $150 you would not owe if you worked where you live.
- No route sends more people into Youngstown than this one. About 843 workers come from Warren, putting it top of 3 recorded origins. Whatever the tax rule does here, it does to a lot of households at once.
- The credit here is real but bounded. Warren allows residents about 100% of tax paid to another municipality, subject to a ceiling of about 2.5% of income, and on this pairing it is the ceiling rather than the share that binds. Youngstown withholds $1,650 at about 2.75%; Warren returns $1,500 of that and collects the remainder of its own about 2.5% resident levy. The workplace accordingly costs $150 above the home-only position, against a total of $1,650.
- This is the largest recorded flow into Youngstown. Of 3 origins feeding that workplace in this dataset, Warren supplies the most workers at approximately 843. The credit outcome described above therefore applies to more commuters than any other single route into the city, which matters when the outcome is an adverse one: the same ordinance governs every origin, but the populations behind each are very different.
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
| Youngstown takes, on income earned there | $1,650 |
|---|---|
| Warren charges residents | $1,500 |
| Less the credit Warren gives back | $1,500 |
| Total local tax | $1,650 |
| If you also lived in Youngstown | $1,500 |
| Difference | $150 |
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
- Here is the shape of it, because the arithmetic is easy to get wrong. You are taxed by both cities. What happens next is up to Warren: it may credit all of what Youngstown took, some of it, or none at all. That choice belongs to the city rather than to the state, which is why identical salaries in neighboring towns land so differently.
- One thing to keep in mind. Ohio does not require Warren to give any credit at all. That choice sits with the city, and cities revisit it. A vote in Warren could change what this commute to Youngstown 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 Youngstown, and the credit from Warren does not touch it. If your district charges one, add it to everything here.
- Do not read this as your whole tax bill. It is the part that answers to the commute between Warren and Youngstown. 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 Warren 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 Youngstown 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. Youngstown taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Warren taxes its residents on everything, and Warren then credits some, all or none of what Youngstown collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Warren rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Warren's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Warren 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 Warren can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Youngstown 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 Youngstown, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Warren 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 Warren and Youngstown, 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 Warren to Youngstown 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?
Both places charge you, but the city you live in gives back some of what the other one took. Youngstown taxes you for working there at about 2.75%; Warren then charges its own about 2.5% and credits part of the first against it. Whether anything is left over depends on how generous that credit is.
What does crossing this boundary actually cost me?
Working across the line costs $150 a year here. The same salary earned in Warren would not carry it.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
843 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: Youngstown on the basis of work location at about 2.75%, Warren 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.
What is the marginal local tax cost of this commute?
Marginal annual liability attributable to working outside the residence jurisdiction is $150 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 843 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.