Metro area · Maryland

Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro area

Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV is a metropolitan area of 3 counties in Maryland, West Virginia, home to 315,280 residents. Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro area has a quality-of-life score of 49 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #471 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Maryland it ranks #5 of 8. It ranks best on job growth (high), income inequality (Gini index) (low) and days with unhealthy air (low). It ranks worst on average commute time (high), injury deaths (high) and drought exposure (high).

49Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#471 of 925 metro and micro areas
Maryland
#5 of 8 in MD
Population
315,280 (2025)
Land area
1,008 mi²
Density
312.8 /mi²
CBSA code
25180

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety63#342/924
  • Economy73#247/925
  • Housing62#355/925
  • Health23#711/925
  • Healthcare49#467/923
  • Environment54#420/917
  • Education42#539/925
  • Infrastructure52#449/925
  • Community25#692/925
  • Leisure & amenities52#444/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Metro and micro areas like Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV metro area in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Washington CountyCentral county55157,731
  2. Berkeley CountyCentral county51139,522
  3. Morgan CountyOutlying county4018,027

States

The share of the area's residents living in each state.

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. HagerstownPrincipal city43,665
  2. MartinsburgPrincipal city18,904

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Hagerstown43,665
  2. Martinsburg18,904
  3. Halfway10,849
  4. Robinwood8,042
  5. Fountainhead-Orchard Hills6,567
  6. St. James4,824
  7. Boonsboro3,809
  8. Maugansville3,624
  9. Smithsburg3,115
  10. Inwood2,794
  11. Paramount-Long Meadow2,569
  12. Falling Waters2,183
  13. Williamsport1,949
  14. Wilson-Conococheague1,663
  15. Hancock1,625
  16. Keedysville1,183
  17. Highfield-Cascade1,089
  18. Funkstown1,076
  19. Bath (Berkeley Springs)975
  20. Downsville958
  21. Cavetown858
  22. Mount Aetna637
  23. Great Cacapon587
  24. Sharpsburg585

Other metro and micro areas in Maryland

Areas based in Maryland, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

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