Windsor Township to York
Pennsylvania Act 32 local earned income tax · BERKS to YORK County · tax year 2026
Home rate
1%
Windsor Township, residents
Work rate
1.25%
York, non-residents
You pay
1.25%
the higher of the two
Cost of the commute
$150
a year, above the home rate
What this commute costs you
workplace governsYork charges commuters more than Windsor Township charges its own residents, so the work rate wins the greater-of test and the difference is real money. You pay the solid bar only — Pennsylvania charges the higher of the two rates, never their sum. Local earned income tax only; state, federal and payroll tax apply on top.
What this commute actually costs
- Where you work costs more than where you live here. Windsor Township charges residents about 1%. York charges non-residents about 1.25%. You pay the higher one. That is $750 a year, or $150 more than working at home would cost.
- Few other routes into York appear in this data, so there is little to compare at that end. The other direction has plenty. Windsor Township sends workers to 1 places, and this is number 1 by size.
- On the Windsor Township to York commute the work location governs. Windsor Township's resident rate is about 1% and York's non-resident rate is about 1.25%; Pennsylvania's greater-of test therefore fixes the effective rate at about 1.25%. At the reference salary that is $750, of which $150 is attributable to the workplace. The residence collects its own rate and the excess is remitted to the work location.
- York draws few recorded inflows, so cross-origin comparison is thin at the destination end. The origin is better covered: Windsor Township appears as the home municipality for 1 tracked destinations, of which this ranks 1 by worker count.
Where the money goes
A $75,000 salary
- Federal income tax$7,670
- Social Security and Medicare$5,738
- State income tax$2,303
- Yours$59,290
| Federal income tax10.23% | $7,670 |
|---|---|
| Social Security and Medicare7.65% | $5,738 |
| State income tax3.07% | $2,303 |
| Yours79.05% | $59,290 |
The arithmetic, side by side
| If you worked in Windsor Township | $600 |
|---|---|
| Working in York | $750 |
| Difference | $150 |
On a reference salary of $60,000 a year. The local tax is flat, so every figure scales with your own pay.
What this page does not cover
- One thing worth being clear about, because it catches people out. You are not charged by both places. Windsor Township and York do not add their rates together. Pennsylvania picks the higher of the two, and that is what you pay. Adding them would roughly double the bill.
- Only one tax is on this page. It is the local earned income tax that Windsor Township and York levy. State tax, federal tax and Social Security all still apply. All three are the same wherever in Pennsylvania you work.
- Sixty thousand a year is a benchmark. It is not a guess at what people in Windsor Township earn. No published wage figure exists for single municipalities. The rate is the durable part of this page. The dollars scale straight up and down with whatever you earn in York.
- Check two things. A Windsor Township postal address may not match your taxing municipality. That catches out plenty of people near a boundary, and the state has an official lookup for it. Philadelphia is the other one to watch. It runs its wage tax separately, outside the pattern used for York.
- Pennsylvania's local rule is a greater-of rule, not an additive one: the liability for a Windsor Township resident working in York is the higher of the two applicable rates, not their sum. The distinction is worth stating plainly because the additive reading is intuitive and would overstate the charge by roughly a factor of two. What is divided between the municipalities is the remittance, not the worker's liability.
- The scope here is the municipal earned income tax alone. State, federal and payroll taxes are unaffected by the choice between Windsor Township and York and are therefore outside the model. A total tax position requires adding them; a comparison of the two locations does not.
- The reference salary is a stated benchmark, not an estimate of Windsor Township earnings, for which no municipal-level published source exists. The local earned income tax is proportional, so all dollar figures for the York commute scale linearly with income and the rate comparison holds at every salary.
- Verify two things before relying on these figures. Municipal taxing boundaries do not track postal geography, so the applicable jurisdiction for a Windsor Township address should be confirmed through the state's official lookup. Separately, Philadelphia's wage tax operates outside this framework and is not governed by the greater-of rule applied here, which affects any pairing involving the city rather than York generally.
Questions people ask
Do I pay local tax twice — once where I work and once where I live?
Only once, at the higher rate. Between Windsor Township's about 1% and York's about 1.25%, the larger governs — the two are never added together.
What does crossing this boundary actually cost me?
Working across the line costs $150 a year here. The same salary earned in Windsor Township would not carry it.
Which town's rate am I actually paying?
York's, because it is the higher of the two. Where you work sets the rate on this route, and your home town receives its share out of what is collected rather than charging you separately.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
It is a smaller route: 759 workers. That affects how representative it is, not whether the tax arithmetic applies — the rules are the same on a quiet road as a busy one.
How does Pennsylvania's local earned income tax law allocate liability between two districts?
Pennsylvania's local earned income tax law assigns the higher of the residence rate (about 1%) and the non-resident work rate (about 1.25%); liabilities are never summed. The employer withholds at the governing rate and remits through the work district's collector, which then distributes to the residence district.
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.
Which district's rate governs on this route?
The work district's non-resident rate exceeds the residence rate and therefore governs. Withholding occurs at that rate, and distribution between the two districts happens after collection without further employee liability.
What is the measurement basis for a route of this size?
Route volume is 759 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.