Sales tax in Stark County, Ohio
The sales tax rate in Stark County, Ohio is 6.5%. That is a 5.75% state rate plus a 0.5% county rate, and it is the same at every address in the county.
What is the sales tax rate in Stark County?
| Ohio state rate | 5.75% |
|---|---|
| Stark County rate | 0.5% |
| Combined rate | 6.5% |
Why the rate here is not the whole story
Ohio's state sales tax rate is 5.75 percent and Stark County levies a permissive county sales tax of 0.5 percent. A third layer sits on top of those two: the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA) levies 0.25 percent, and its district currently takes in the whole of Stark County, so every address in the county pays the same 6.5 percent today. The transit levy belongs to neither the state nor the county and has no field of its own here, so use the combined figure rather than adding the state and county rates. A transit authority district is drawn from the communities that join it rather than from the county line, which is why the county line is not by itself the tax boundary even though the rate is uniform right now. Ohio cities and villages cannot levy a general sales tax of their own. Ohio counties and regional transit authorities may raise their levies only in multiples of 0.05 percent, the combined state, county and transit rate may not exceed 8.75 percent, and a change can only take effect at the start of a calendar quarter.
How do I find the exact rate for an address in Stark County?
The rate is the same across Stark County, but if you are collecting tax it is worth confirming against the source. Use Ohio's own lookup. A vendor's calculator is not the state speaking.
Who has to collect sales tax in Stark County?
A seller with a physical presence in Ohio collects at the rate for the address where the sale takes place. A remote seller collects once it passes Ohio's economic nexus threshold, which is a separate question from the rate and is covered on our sales tax nexus checker. Marketplace facilitators generally collect on behalf of their sellers.
How does Stark County compare?
See Ohio sales tax for the statewide picture, including the average local rate and what is exempt. Property tax is a separate tax with separate rules: property tax in Stark County.
Sources
- Stark County rates: Ohio Department of Taxation, Sales and Use Tax Rates listed by county and transit authority, 2025 4th Quarter table effective October 1, 2025, https://tax.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/tax/business/sales-and-use-tax/rate-tables/by-county-q4-2025, still the rate in force on September 9, 2026 because the Department posted no county rate change for the 1st, 2nd or 3rd quarters of 2026. State, county permissive and transit components split using the Department's Streamlined Sales Tax rate file OHR2026Q1NOV28.csv and OHTransitFIPSCodes.txt, both downloaded from The Finder at https://thefinder.tax.ohio.gov, and cross checked against the Department's Ohio County Rate Table by Zip Code, CountySalesTaxRateReport.csv
- Collected and verified September 9, 2026. Confidence: P on the rate components, P on the range (P read on a primary agency page, S strong but indirect, U unverified).