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Businesses in the Purple Line Corridor

Goal: Diverse, locally established businesses thrive during and after the construction period.
Strategies:
  • Prepare an economic development strategy
  • Support existing businesses and foster new business creation
  • Support organizations that promote small and local business prosperity
  • Create environments that support small, locally established businesses
  • Minimize business disruption during construction
  • Provide specialized assistance to businesses before, during and after construction

Largest number of jobs (2020)

Bethesda

54,417

Largest Change in Total Jobs (2000-2020)

Bethesda

36%

Largest number of Small Businesses (2020)

Bethesda

2222

Note: 2-digit NAICS codes by industry sector; Industrial- 11,21,31-33; Retail-44-45;Office-51,52,53,54,55,61,62,92; Other-22,23,42,48-49,56,71,72,81
Subarea Total Jobs (2000) Total Jobs (2012) Jobs Trend Total Jobs (2020) 2000-2020 Change
Bethesda - Chevy Chase 40,020 45129 54417 14397
Silver Spring 30,585 27836 40997 10412
International Corridor 7,725 5395 7916 191
University of Maryland 21796 22643 24382 2586
Riverdale - New Carrolton 24,745 28556 25129 384
Total Jobs Change 124871 129559 152841 27970
Denotations: D1 - Year 2000, D2 - Year 2006 to 2010, D3 - Year 2009 to 2013, D4 - Year 2010 to 2014, D5 - Year 2011 to 2015, D6 - Year 2012 to 2016. If you hover over the sparkline for unemployment trend, you can see the value in each division. Unemployment Change column depicts change in population per division.