Montgomery County is a thriving business center, Maryland's most populous jurisdiction, and a major job generator for the state. Bordering Washington, D.C. and located roughly 30 miles southwest of Baltimore, the county is the heart of Maryland's biotech community, which ranks third largest in the nation. Over 200 biotech companies and industry leaders such as Human Genome Sciences and MedImmune are located here. The county is also home to 19 federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Food and Drug Administration. In addition, the county is home to world-famous educational and research organizations such as The Johns Hopkins University's Montgomery County Campus, the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, The Institute for Genomic Research and the Universities at Shady Grove.
Montgomery County's 32,400 businesses employ over 386,000 workers in areas including information technology, telecommunications, biotechnology, software development, aerospace engineering and various professional services. Leading companies that call Montgomery County home include BAE Systems Applied Technologies, Discovery Communications, GEICO, Hughes Network Systems, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International and Westat.
For additional information, download the 4-page
Brief Economic Facts for the county.
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