How Baltimore is built — and why it changes the price
Baltimore has about 568,000 residents spread over 81 square miles, roughly 7,020 per square mile. It is busy enough to keep a truck working a full route and open enough that most homes still have somewhere to pull in.
Baltimore is a row-house city: 65% of its 293,631 homes are single-family, yet only 15% stand detached. The practical consequence is the staircase. Almost nothing comes out of a row house without going down one, and that is what a crew is pricing.
Renters hold 52% of occupied homes in Baltimore and owners the rest, which splits the work in two: fast move-out hauls on one side, and the slower kind on the other — a garage that filled up over fifteen years. The median Baltimore home dates to about 1948 — an era of walk-ups, half-landings and staircases that turn. Anything wide comes out on its side, and a crew that has seen the building before is worth listening to.
Measured from the city centre, our closest other coverage is Washington (35 miles), Arlington (39 miles) and Philadelphia (93 miles). Pros work across those lines all day, so the bids on a Baltimore job often come from trucks that started the morning somewhere else entirely.
