By population Lexington Park, MD is 221st of 387 US metropolitan areas, with 209,439 residents. This page lays out the income and housing picture and a trade-by-trade look at the competition.
This is the Lexington Park metropolitan area in Maryland.
The median home is worth $434,100, 30 percent above the national figure, which shapes what homeowners will spend on repairs and upgrades. Money first: median household income in the Lexington Park metro is $126,256, 56 percent above the national figure. For a business that sells to homeowners, that combination sets the ceiling on what a job is worth.
Homeownership stands at 79.4%, 14 points above the US share. A younger-than-average population: median age 38.6, about the same as the national median. Education: 36.7% with a bachelor's or higher, 1 points above the US share. Unemployment 3.2%, 2 points below the US share.
How does that compare with the state as a whole? Income in Lexington Park, MD is 22 percent higher than the Maryland figure, the median home value is 3 percent higher than the Maryland figure, and business density is 21 percent thinner than the Maryland figure; the full numbers are on the Maryland page.
How crowded is the market overall? Lexington Park, MD has 3,815 employer establishments. Relative to population, 18.2 per 1,000 residents, 27 percent below the national figure. Contractors in the home-services trades total 317, or 8.3% of the base, 4 points above the US share.
| Trade (NAICS) | Count | Per 100,000 | Index vs US |
|---|---|---|---|
| General freight trucking | 18 | 8.6 | 0.34× |
| Automobile dealers | 11 | 5.3 | 0.51× |
| Legal services | 45 | 21.5 | 0.54× |
| Roofing contractors | 8 | 3.8 | 0.69× |
| Highway, street and bridge construction | 3 | 1.4 | 0.71× |
| Physicians' offices | 77 | 36.8 | 0.77× |
| Lessors of real estate (all) | 54 | 25.8 | 0.87× |
| Concrete foundation and structure contractors | 10 | 4.8 | 0.94× |
| Dentists | 61 | 29.1 | 0.99× |
| Grocery and convenience retailers | 46 | 22 | 1.01× |
| Restaurants and other eating places | 303 | 144.7 | 1.07× |
| Self-storage facilities | 10 | 4.8 | 1.18× |
| Landscaping services | 65 | 31 | 1.21× |
| Personal care services (all) | 96 | 45.8 | 1.31× |
| Child day care services | 52 | 24.8 | 1.39× |
| General automotive repair | 55 | 26.3 | 1.42× |
| Beauty salons | 58 | 27.7 | 1.51× |
| Electrical contractors | 78 | 37.2 | 2.05× |
| Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors | 107 | 51.1 | 2.11× |
| Other specialty trade contractors (paving, asphalt, fencing) | 49 | 23.4 | 2.51× |
Ratio above 1.00: the trade holds a bigger share of the local business base than it does nationally; below 1.00, a smaller one.
Against the US mix, specialty trade contractors, plumbing and HVAC contractors, electrical contractors and beauty salons are over-represented. Specialty trade contractors are the widest gap, 49 of them, 2.5 times the national share. On the other side, general freight trucking, automobile dealers, legal services and roofing contractors are thin: fewer establishments per resident than the US pattern. General freight trucking: 18 establishments, about 34% of the national share. Concrete contractors, dentists and restaurants track the US share closely.
The most numerous of the listed trades: restaurants with 303 establishments, then plumbing and HVAC contractors (107) and personal care services (96). Scaled to residents, restaurants run 144.7 per 100,000, more than plumbing and HVAC contractors or personal care services. Across the groups, the home-services trades run 1.7 times the US share and legal services about half of.
In specialty trade contractors, plumbing and HVAC contractors and electrical contractors the question is not whether to advertise but how narrowly: the tighter the keywords, the towns and the offer, the less is wasted against the crowd. In general freight trucking, automobile dealers and legal services, the shortage of local establishments is an opening: the searches are there, the competition for them is not, and a listing that ranks plus a page that converts can own the category quickly. Incomes 56 percent above the national figure give room for premium service tiers; ads that lead with quality and speed rather than price tend to fit. The population is younger than the national median (about the same as the national median), which raises the value of Instagram, streaming and AI-answer visibility next to search. At 79.4% owner-occupied, home-services demand comes straight from residents rather than through landlords.
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Lexington Park, MD has 209,439 residents (US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimate), ranking 221st of 387 metropolitan areas.
The median household income in Lexington Park, MD is $126,256 (ACS 2024 5-year), above the US median of $80,734.
The Census Bureau counts 3,815 employer establishments in Lexington Park, MD (County Business Patterns 2023), or 18.2 businesses per 1,000 residents.
The median home value in Lexington Park, MD is $434,100, and 79.4% of homes are owner-occupied (ACS 2024 5-year).
Measured against the US business mix (County Business Patterns 2023), specialty trade contractors, plumbing and HVAC contractors and electrical contractors have more establishments per resident than the US average; general freight trucking, automobile dealers and legal services have fewer in Lexington Park, MD.
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Data: US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates and County Business Patterns 2023. Updated 2026-09-29.