Metro by metro
The leading home improvement center chains in every Maryland metro area
Tracked home improvement center chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. The Home Depot leads in 2 metro areas, Lowe's Home Improvement in 2 metro areas. Against their share in Maryland as a whole, The Home Depot stands out in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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The Home Depot
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Baltimore, MD 1.2× · Washington, DC (MD part) 1×
Not enough tracked stores: Philadelphia, PA (MD part) · Salisbury, MD
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Hagerstown, MD (MD part) · Lexington Park, MD
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The Home Depot
#1 in 2 metro areas
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Lowe's Home Improvement
#1 in 2 metro areas
Hagerstown, MD (MD part) · Lexington Park, MD
Not enough tracked stores: Philadelphia, PA (MD part) · Salisbury, MD
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked home improvement center chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Maryland compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Maryland as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Maryland and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Maryland is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Maryland. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked home improvement center chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Carter Machinery and Floor & Decor sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Carter Machinery | ▲1 | +5.5% |
| 2 | Floor & Decor | - | +4.7% |
| 3 | The Home Depot | - | +0.6% |
| 4 | Lowe's Home Improvement | - | +0.3% |
| 5 | Sherwin-Williams | - | -3.6% |
| 6 | McCormick Paints | ▲1 | -7.1% |
| 7 | The Tile Shop | ▲1 | -9.7% |
| 8 | LL Flooring | ▲2 | -12.4% |
| 9 | PPG Paints | ▲1 | -15.5% |
| 10 | Leslie's Pool Supplies | ▲1 | -16.4% |
| 11 | Regal Paint Centers | ▲1 | -28.9% |
| 12 | Fishman Flooring Solutions | - | -34.3% |
| 13 | Beacon Building Products | ▼8 | -100.0% |
- The Home Depot
- Lowe's Home Improvement
- Sherwin-Williams
- Floor & Decor
- Wood Floors Plus
- Lynn Wholesale Flooring
- Sneade's Hardware
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
308 tracked store locations in Maryland. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 151 of the 308 stores (49%); 98 of the 119 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are home improvement centers, against 4% across the United States.
- The Home Depot (44)
- Lowe's Home Improvement (29)
- Sherwin-Williams (57)
- Floor & Decor (6)
- Wood Floors Plus (1)
- Lynn Wholesale Flooring (1)
- Sneade's Hardware (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Sherwin-Williams 57
- 2 The Home Depot 44
- 3 Lowe's Home Improvement 29
- 4 McCormick Paints 12
- 5 Beacon Building Products 9
- 6 Leslie's Pool Supplies 8
- 7 Capitol Building Supply 7
- 8 Floor & Decor 6
- 9 The Tile Shop 5
- 10 LL Flooring 4
- 11 Metro Bobcat 4
- 12 Regal Paint Centers 4
- 13 Fishman Flooring Solutions 3
- 14 PPG Paints 3
- 15 Carter Machinery 3
- 16 Morris Tile Distributors 2
- 17 TW Perry 2
- 18 Arrow Electrical Supply 2
- 19 Carter Lumber 2
- 20 Ernest Maier 2
- 21 Best Tile 2
- 22 Jarrettsville Nurseries Tree Service 1
- 23 Tull Lumber Sales 1
- 24 Free State Floor Supplies 1
- 25 Emser Tile 1
- 26 Lauren's Garden Service & Native Nursery 1
- 27 Belair Road Supply Co Inc 1
- 28 E S Hubbert & Son Inc. 1
- 29 Tri-County Concrete Supplies 1
- 30 Greenspring Rug Care 1
- 31 Hagerstown Block Co 1
- 32 Kitchen Floors 1
- 33 Baltimore Floor Works 1
- 34 Atlantic Coast Carpet 1
- 35 Blue Collar Fence Pros 1
- 36 Calvert Ready Mix and Concrete Supplies 1
- 37 Chaney Enterprises 1
- 38 RPS Carpet & Flooring Wholesalers 1
- 39 Conestoga Tile 1
- 40 McCormick Insulation Supply 1
- 41 Dealers Building SuppIy Corp 1
- 42 Sparkle Pools 1
- 43 La Plata Mill & Rental Center 1
- 44 Universal Supply Co. 1
- 45 Rew Materials 1
- 46 United Builders 1
- 47 Taylor & Son 1
- 48 Squeakyy Cleaners 1
- 49 Maryland Floor Pros 1
- 50 Bond Home Center 1
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