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House cleaning businesses in Anne Arundel County, MD
How Anne Arundel County, MD compares with other counties and the U.S. for house cleaning businesses: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 58 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #269 of 847 scored counties
#13 of 18 scored counties in Maryland
- Listings
- 65
- 4 chain locations (6%)
- Official establishments
- 150
- 0.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $430.2M
- On lawn care, cleaning and other household services · $1,914 a household
- Spending per listing
- $6.6M
- 3% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 2.9
- 32% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 603,380
- +1.7% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Anne Arundel County spend about $430.2M a year on lawn care, cleaning and other household services, or $1,914 per household, 35% above the U.S. average. Spread across 65 house cleaning businesses, that is $6.6M per business, 3% above the U.S. figure of $6.4M. The spending figure covers all lawn care, cleaning and other household services, not only house cleaning businesses.
Anne Arundel County has 65 house cleaning businesses on map listings as of September 2026. 4 of them (6%) are chain locations, against 8% across the U.S. That comes to 2.9 for every 10,000 households, 32% above the U.S. rate of 2.2.
Official counts show 150 businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in Anne Arundel County in 2023, unchanged from 2019. That is one for every 1,498 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 2 SBA-backed loans worth $606K have gone to businesses classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in Anne Arundel County.
Population estimates put the population change in Anne Arundel County from 2020 to 2025 at +1.7%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). Anne Arundel County scores 58 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for house cleaning businesses, ranking #269 of 847 scored counties and #13 of 18 scored counties in Maryland.
How Anne Arundel County compares
The same measures for Maryland and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all lawn care, cleaning and other household services by the house cleaning businesses counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Anne Arundel County | Maryland | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| Spending per listing | $6.6M | $7.1M | $6.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,498 | 1,524 | 1,735 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | 0.0% | −2.3% | +6.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.7% | +1.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on lawn care, cleaning and other household services | $1,914 | $1,757 | $1,414 |
| Median household income | $124,911 | $103,678 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 58 | 61 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 150 → 1500.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 3,688
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $88.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 654 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 67The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 2
- Amount
- $606K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in Anne Arundel County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Anne Arundel County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 603,380+1.7% since 2020
- Households
- 224,748
- Median age
- 40.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 75%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 415 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 1,442
- Median household income
- $124,911+23.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $156,835
- Median home value
- $467,900
- Jobs located here
- 269,614
- Daytime population
- 605,412Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Maryland
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Charles County, MD | 86 | 6 | 1.0 | $19M | +5.9% | #13 of 847 |
| 2Cecil County, MD | 83 | 6 | 1.5 | $10.9M | +3.2% | #25 of 847 |
| 3Calvert County, MD | 77 | 9 | 2.7 | $7.3M | +1.7% | #59 of 847 |
| 4Harford County, MD | 73 | 17 | 1.7 | $10.7M | +2.0% | #79 of 847 |
| 5Carroll County, MD | 72 | 16 | 2.5 | $7.5M | +2.2% | #91 of 847 |
| 6Howard County, MD | 66 | 26 | 2.1 | $9.8M | +1.9% | #146 of 847 |
| 7Baltimore city, MD | 65 | 30 | 1.2 | $11.9M | −2.3% | #154 of 847 |
| 8St. Mary’s County, MD | 64 | 11 | 2.6 | $7.2M | +2.4% | #169 of 847 |
| 9Frederick County, MD | 63 | 39 | 3.7 | $5.1M | +11.0% | #189 of 847 |
| 10Queen Anne’s County, MD | 62 | 7 | 3.5 | $5.2M | +8.8% | #206 of 847 |
| 13Anne Arundel County, MD | 58 | 65 | 2.9 | $6.6M | +1.7% | #269 of 847 |
Other business types in Anne Arundel County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
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Clothing and laundry
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Funeral services
Questions
How many house cleaning businesses are in Anne Arundel County, MD?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 65 house cleaning businesses in Anne Arundel County. 4 of them (6%) are chain locations. The listings count house cleaners and carpet cleaners. Official counts show 150 businesses with payroll classed as janitorial and carpet cleaning services in 2023, unchanged from 2019.
How much do households in Anne Arundel County, MD spend on lawn care, cleaning and other household services?
About $430.2M a year, or $1,914 per household. That is 35% above the U.S. average (an index of 135, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 65 house cleaning businesses on map listings, it comes to $6.6M per business. That spending covers all lawn care, cleaning and other household services, which house cleaning businesses share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 224,748 households in Anne Arundel County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Anne Arundel County, MD compare with the U.S. for house cleaning businesses?
Anne Arundel County has 2.9 house cleaning businesses per 10,000 households, 32% above the U.S. rate of 2.2. Spending per business is $6.6M, 3% above the U.S. figure of $6.4M. At the U.S. ratio of house cleaning businesses to household spending, Anne Arundel County would have about 67, against 65 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,498 households, against one for every 1,735 across the U.S. The official count held level from 2019 to 2023, against +6.6% for the U.S.
How fast is Anne Arundel County, MD growing?
Population estimates put Anne Arundel County at 603,380 people in 2025, up 1.7% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 224,748 households. The median household income in Anne Arundel County is $124,911 a year, 55% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 23.9% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Anne Arundel County scores 58 for house cleaning businesses (upper middle), #269 of 847 scored counties.
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