Maryland
Maryland: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 6,100,000 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Maryland at a glance
Rolled up from the 17 regions inside Maryland on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Population6,170,738
census
Places inside17
8 with a full /local page
Businesses on file57,729
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered70
in the company directory
Who represents them3
places with a /politics page
Property & employers3 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Who leads Maryland, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
Leadership
Economy & households
- Population
- 6,265,347 persons (July 1 resident population, Census Bureau Vintage 2025) (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 582,352.5 USD millions, current dollars, seasonally adjusted annual rate (BEA) (2026-Q2) ↗
- Unemployment
- 3.9 percent, seasonally adjusted (BLS LAUS) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 102,905 USD (2024 ACS 1-year; ranks 4th among states) (2024) ↗
- Average household income
- 136,642 USD, mean household income (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, 2024 dollars) (2024) ↗
- Home ownership
- 68.8 percent, not seasonally adjusted (Census CPS/HVS) (2025) ↗
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Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore-Columbia-Towson MSA ↗ | 375,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Montgomery County ↗ | 599,990 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Prince George's County ↗ | 449,400 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Baltimore County ↗ | 379,900 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Anne Arundel County ↗ | 524,990 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Baltimore City ↗ | 205,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Howard County ↗ | 580,500 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com) | 2026-10 |
| Maryland (statewide) ↗ | 445,000 USD | median sale (Maryland REALTORS) | 2026-08 |
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Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| English only ↗ | 78.9% | share of population 5+ speaking only English at home (ACS 2020-2024 5-year) | 2024 |
| Language other than English ↗ | 21.1% | share of population 5+ speaking a language other than English at home (ACS 2020-2024 5-year) | 2024 |
| Spanish ↗ | 9.6% | share of population 5+ speaking Spanish at home (ACS 2020-2024 5-year) | 2024 |
| Other Indo-European languages ↗ | 4.7% | share of population 5+ speaking these at home (ACS 2020-2024 5-year) | 2024 |
| Asian and Pacific Islander languages ↗ | 3.9% | share of population 5+ speaking these at home (ACS 2020-2024 5-year) | 2024 |
| Other languages ↗ | 2.9% | share of population 5+ speaking these at home (ACS 2020-2024 5-year) | 2024 |
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Largest companies in Maryland
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lockheed Martin (Bethesda) ↗ | revenue | 75.05 USD billions, FY ended 2025-12-31 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| Marriott International (Bethesda) ↗ | revenue | 26.19 USD billions, FY ended 2025-12-31 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| Constellation Energy (Baltimore) ↗ | revenue | 25.53 USD billions, FY ended 2025-12-31 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| T. Rowe Price Group (Baltimore) ↗ | revenue | 7.31 USD billions, FY ended 2025-12-31 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| McCormick & Company (Hunt Valley) ↗ | revenue | 6.84 USD billions, FY ended 2025-11-30 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| Host Hotels & Resorts (Bethesda) ↗ | revenue | 6.11 USD billions, FY ended 2025-12-31 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| Under Armour (Baltimore) ↗ | revenue | 4.97 USD billions, FY ended 2026-03-31 (10-K XBRL) | 2026 |
| Ciena (Hanover) ↗ | revenue | 4.77 USD billions, FY ended 2025-11-01 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| Sinclair, Inc. (Hunt Valley) ↗ | revenue | 3.17 USD billions, FY ended 2025-12-31 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
| Choice Hotels International (North Bethesda) ↗ | revenue | 1.6 USD billions, FY ended 2025-12-31 (10-K XBRL) | 2025 |
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Worth knowing
- 2026-11Governor Wes Moore was re-elected to a second term on November 3, 2026, again defeating Republican Dan Cox; Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller was again his running mate. ↗
- 2026-08Wes Moore has chaired the National Governors Association since August 1, 2026. He is Maryland's first Black governor. ↗
- 2025-09Maryland's 2024 median household income of $102,905 ranked 4th among the states, 26.1% above the U.S. median of $81,604; its 9.1% poverty rate ranked fourth lowest. ↗
- 2026-09In August 2026, 5,582 Maryland homes sold, down 8.5% from August 2025. The median sale price rose 2.3% to $445,000, and pending sales turned negative for the first time in more than a year. ↗
- 2026-03Census Bureau Vintage 2025 puts Maryland at 6,265,347 residents on July 1, 2025, up from an April 2020 estimates base of 6,181,640. ↗
- 2023-01Aruna Miller, born in Andhra Pradesh, India, is the first woman of color and the first immigrant elected to statewide office in Maryland. ↗
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Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Median household income$101,652
Median rent$1,662/mo
Immigrants16.3%
Renters32.5%
Aged 65+16.3%
Unemployment4.9%
Low income9.3%
Speak a language other than English19.4%
Languages spoken at home (other than English)
- Spanish548,412 · 8.9%
- Other Indo-European languages144,224 · 2.3%
- Other and unspecified languages138,979 · 2.3%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun74,053 · 1.2%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)70,119 · 1.1%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages58,347 · 0.9%
- Korean35,576 · 0.6%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages34,900 · 0.6%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)32,412 · 0.5%
- Arabic21,856 · 0.4%
- Vietnamese19,935 · 0.3%
- German or other West Germanic languages19,422 · 0.3%
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Largest places in Maryland
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Baltimore, Maryland full585,708
- 2.Frederick, Maryland full78,171
- 3.Gaithersburg, Maryland full69,657
- 4.Hagerstown, Maryland full43,527
- 5.Annapolis, Maryland full40,744
- 6.Salisbury, Maryland full33,050
- 7.Laurel, Maryland full29,594
- 8.Greenbelt, Maryland24,921
- 9.Cambridge, Maryland13,096
- 10.Ocean City, Maryland full6,844
- 11.Pocomoke City, Maryland4,295
- 12.St. Michaels, Maryland1,094
- 13.Deal Island, MD375
- 14.Fenwick Island, Delaware355
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Inside Maryland
17 regions have Maryland as their parent.
- Annapolis Junction, MD
- Annapolis, Maryland
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Cambridge, Maryland
- Deal Island, MD
- Fenwick Island, Delaware
- Frederick, Maryland
- Frostburg, Maryland
- Gaithersburg, Maryland
- Greenbelt, Maryland
- Hagerstown, Maryland
- Laurel, Maryland
- Ocean City, Maryland
- Pocomoke City, Maryland
- Rockville, Maryland
- Salisbury, Maryland
- St. Michaels, Maryland
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Companies based in Maryland
1 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 70 across Maryland and the places inside it — search them all below.
| Company | Industry | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Tenable | Security | 2002 |
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Maryland are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.