Moving to Baltimore Metro: U-Haul Tracks Top Origins for DIY Movers Arriving in 2025
Summer is moving season, and odds are you have seen a U-Haul® truck being unloaded at a home near you. Or perhaps you were the one moving. With nearly half of all residential moves in the U.S. occurring between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends each year, the U-Haul midyear migration trends report answers the question: “Where did those new neighbors come from?”
Many of the largest U.S. metros are in growth mode — a change from what was seen following the COVID-19 pandemic when people took advantage of remote work and migrated to less-crowded markets. More recently, big cities and their expanding suburbs are back to greeting a robust inflow of U-Haul equipment.
U-Haul, which is celebrating 80 years of Moving America, looked at its one-way customer transactions from January to July 2025 to determine the leading origins for trucks, trailers and U-Box® moving containers bound for metro areas with populations greater than 2 million.
If you live in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson metro area, here are the top places where U-Haul do-it-yourself movers started their journey to find a better life near you:
Top origin states for arriving U-Haul customers (excluding Maryland)
- Virginia
- Pennsylvania
- North Carolina
- New York
- Florida
- New Jersey
- Georgia
- Delaware
- Texas
- South Carolina
Top origin metro areas for arriving U-Haul customers outside Maryland
- Washington, D.C.
- Philadelphia, PA
- New York City, NY
- Harrisburg, PA
- Virginia Beach, VA
Top origin city propers for arriving U-Haul customers within Maryland
- Frederick
- Rockville
- Takoma Park
- Hyattsville
- Salisbury
Be sure to check back at year’s end for the annual U-Haul Growth Index reports and rankings identifying the top 2025 growth states, U.S. growth metros and city propers, and Canadian growth provinces and cities.
Find past U-Haul migration trends reports at uhaul.com/about/migration.
About U-HAUL
Celebrating our 80th anniversary in 2025, U-Haul is the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers with more than 24,000 rental locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. The U-Haul app makes it easy for customers to use U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 to access trucks anytime through the self-dispatch and -return options on their smartphones with our patented Live Verify technology. Our customers’ patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to 193,900 trucks, 138,200 trailers and 40,300 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America and offers 1,060,000 rentable storage units and 92.0 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities. U-Haul is the top retailer of propane in the U.S. and the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. Get the U-Haul app from the App Store or Google Play.