Doing Business in Talbot County
Talbot County fronts the Chesapeake Bay and is located midway down the Delmarva Peninsula, a 6,057 square mile area just east of the metropolitan Washington, DC referred to locally as Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Talbot County is surrounded by over 600 miles of shoreline and supports large grain fed fields and forests.
The County is poised to serve as a great place to conduct environmental studies and to attract environmental technology companies. There are many opportunities to promote Talbot County as an attractive home for emerging companies which require a place to explore environmental sciences – and who are interested in the overlap of natural sciences, engineering and social sciences. Solutions to 21st Century environmental issues will require large, multidisciplinary teams to analyze complex environmental problems, and will require uninterrupted areas to conduce these studies. Talbot County provides this opportunity.
When viewed from space, this area is the noticeable remaining GREEN spot on the Mid-Atlantic seaboard. This is attributed, in large part, to the poultry industry, which is as much about chickens as it is about large grain farms supporting the $1.3 billion a year industry in Maryland. The requirement to balance the demands for production while sustaining minimal environmental impact has required the poultry industry to implement and adopt advanced technologies. Many of these technologies are now being integrated into new markets.
Talbot County’s population has steadily increased at 1.4% per year for the last 25 years. The County economy has remained healthy attributable to revenues from real estate transfer and recordation taxes and a diverse manufacturing and technology base of employers.
The agricultural, manufacturing production, professional services and medical/healthcare sectors are supported by seven industrial parks and a regional employment base of 84,000 workers.
The Easton Airport, located at the north entrance of the Town of Easton, currently serves general aviation needs for the Mid-Atlantic region with 51,000 annual operations.