[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":300},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fmaryland":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":167,"sources":174,"related":184,"plate":225,"form":233,"scene":234,"path":235,"crumb":21,"ruler":236,"answer":237,"title":238,"h1":238,"description":239,"type":240,"schema":241,"reviewed":244,"crumbs":245,"jsonld":255},3,[6,14,43,61,82,106,134],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Maryland, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Start with the map. The Port of Baltimore anchors the east, and I-70 and I-81 meet at Hagerstown in the west. The Interstates I-95, I-70, I-81 and I-68 set the haul lengths, and the longer the haul, the more an empty stack's height matters.",{"t":10,"text":13},"The counties with the most warehousing jobs are Harford (3,435), Prince George's (2,664) and Washington (1,842), which is 26.5 percent of the state's 29,966. It shares a land border with Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,41],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":40},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Maryland","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","29,966","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","1.58 percent","29,966 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","245","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","122","29,966 ÷ 245, rounded","",{"t":10,"text":42},"Maryland reports no refrigerated warehouse capacity separately in the USDA table we used, so the cold question depends on the individual customer.",{"h2":44,"blocks":45},"Reading the numbers",[46],{"t":47,"items":48},"ul",[49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60],"Harford County has 3,435 warehousing jobs, 11.5 percent of Maryland's 29,966, the most in the state.","Prince George's County has 2,664 warehousing jobs, 8.9 percent of Maryland's 29,966, 771 fewer than Harford County.","Washington County has 1,842 warehousing jobs, 6.1 percent of Maryland's 29,966, 1,593 fewer than Harford County.","Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 9,019 people in Maryland, 0.30 for every warehousing job.","Warehousing and storage employs 29,966 people in Maryland, 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Maryland holds 1.58 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 63, spread over 245 establishments averaging 122 jobs each.","Baltimore accounts for 6,377 warehousing jobs, 21.3 percent of Maryland's.","Hagerstown accounts for 1,842 warehousing jobs, 6.1 percent of Maryland's.","Delaware has 12,495 warehousing jobs, 0.42 times the 29,966 in Maryland.","Pennsylvania has 123,481 warehousing jobs, 4.12 times the 29,966 in Maryland.","West Virginia has 3,631 warehousing jobs, 0.12 times the 29,966 in Maryland.","Virginia has 51,123 warehousing jobs, 1.71 times the 29,966 in Maryland.",{"h2":62,"blocks":63},"Who ships pallets here",[64,78,80],{"t":18,"head":65,"rows":69,"caption":77},[66,67,68],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[70,74],[71,72,73],"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing","9,019","0.30",[75,26,76],"Warehousing and storage","1.00","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":79},"In Maryland, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 9,019. The questions are what the pallet is made of, how it is cleaned, and what documents travel with it. It tends to lean on clean, washable stackable or nestable with a paperwork trail, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documents and the maker's cleaning guidance.",{"t":10,"text":81},"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing is the trade where Maryland is most concentrated, at 1.5 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":83,"blocks":84},"The empty return",[85,87],{"t":10,"text":86},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 245 warehouse establishments in Maryland sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 294,000 pallets. 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