Montgomery County, MD has about as many moving companies with employees per resident as the national average.
Montgomery County, MD has 29 household and office moving companies with employees — 0.3 per 10,000 residents, about the national rate of 0.3 (US Census, County Business Patterns 2023).
- In Montgomery County
- 29
- Per 10k residents
- 0.3
- National rate
- 0.3
- Ratio
- About the national rate
Population 1,069,397. Ranked 3 of 11 Maryland counties with enough moving services data to compare — 1 = fewest per resident.
Source: US Census County Business Patterns ↗Montgomery County, MD has 15 fewer household and office moving companies with employees than in 2017 — 44 then, 29 now, down 34%. Nationally the count grew 15% over the same years.
Montgomery County moved against the national direction over these years. That is the part worth asking about locally — the data says it happened, not why.
What this doesn't tell you: Census counts how many exist each year, not how many opened or closed. A drop of 15 could be 15 closures — or 23 closures and 8 openings. It also can't see solo operators without employees, in any year.
Series runs 2017–2023. Earlier vintages exist but are not comparable: Census changed which small counties it publishes after 2016, so including them would show counties losing an industry that never left.
Census code 484210 covers used-household-and-office-goods moving: local movers and long-distance van lines carrying furniture and belongings.
The blind spot: The code counts companies that own trucks and carry goods. Moving labor — supplying the people who load a truck the customer already rented — is a different business, and this number does not isolate it.
County Business Patterns counts establishments with paid employees. A solo operator with no payroll — the most likely competitor for most of these businesses — is invisible to it, in every county, including this one.
Montgomery County sits close to the national rate for this category, which means this number is not an argument in either direction. Supply here looks ordinary. If you want to start this business, the case has to come from something this measurement cannot see — pricing, service quality, or a neighbourhood nobody covers.
Census counts these as one industry, so the 29 above includes all of them together. It cannot tell you how many are any single one.
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