Texas to Maryland Car Shipping

Texas to Maryland car shipping, in Neptune Auto Transport’s records, mostly means Houston to the Washington, DC suburbs. Six in ten cars were delivered in Prince George’s, Montgomery and Charles counties, against about four in ten on our other routes into Maryland, and Prince George’s County alone took a third. More than half the pickups were in Greater Houston, and the median trip took 3 days once the car was loaded. In recent months Houston-area cars ran about $800 to $950. Moving from Texas to Maryland? Here is the cost, the timing and the 60-day clock.

Six in ten to the DC suburbs, a third to Prince George’s County

The DC suburbs took 59% of the cars, against about 39% on our other routes into Maryland. Prince George’s County took nine: Bowie and Upper Marlboro twice each, plus Capitol Heights, Oxon Hill, District Heights, Suitland and Fort Washington. Montgomery County took five, three of them to Silver Spring and the others to Kensington and Gaithersburg, and Southern Maryland added Waldorf and Bryans Road.

The Baltimore side took most of the rest: Baltimore, Glen Burnie, Severn, Hanover, Gwynn Oak, Nottingham and Finksburg. One car went to Annapolis and two to the Eastern Shore, in Fruitland and Salisbury. Our Baltimore and Columbia city pages and the Maryland car shipping page cover the rest of the state.

Recent prices by Texas starting point, Houston lowest

No row below stands on fewer than three different recent shipments. All were dispatched from January to October 2026 and priced for a running vehicle, open carrier, door to door.

Houston was the least expensive Texas starting point for Maryland. Houston-area cars went to Laurel, Clinton, Waldorf and Randallstown for $800 to $950, while cars from San Antonio and Brownsville ran $1,050 to $1,400. Comparing quotes to ship a car from TX to MD? Start with the row for your Texas city. We have no recent figures for vans, so a Sprinter or a minivan is quoted on its own.

Prices move, so read the table as recent history rather than a quote. The final number depends on the pickup and delivery addresses, the vehicle, your timing and the carriers running northeast that week; ours arrive free and all-inclusive.

Greater Houston supplied more than half the cars

Greater Houston supplied 52% of pickups: Houston itself seven times, Humble and Katy twice each, and Spring, Cypress and Texas City. Dallas-Fort Worth supplied 22%, from Dallas three times and Plano, Addison and DeSoto. The rest came mostly from West Texas, with Lubbock twice, Abilene and Amarillo, plus Universal City, Round Rock and Longview.

Dallas and Houston to Washington, DC’s Maryland suburbs

From loading to delivery the median trip took 3 days, and 21 of 27 cars arrived within 3. Cars from Greater Houston to the DC suburbs took 3 days at the median, and so did Dallas-Fort Worth to the DC suburbs and Houston to the Baltimore area. Our cars went to the Maryland side of the capital; an address inside the District of Columbia is quoted the same way, door to door.

Google puts Houston to Silver Spring at about 1,414 miles, close to 21 hours of driving on I-59 and I-81, and Houston to Baltimore at about 1,446 miles. Dallas to Washington, DC is a little shorter, about 1,328 miles on I-40 and I-81. Pickup timing is agreed separately once a carrier is assigned, and a fixed date is what expedited auto transport is for.

Sprinter vans, pickups and SUVs: what rode to Maryland

Cars made up 45% of the loads, from a Corolla and a Civic to a Tesla Model 3, a Mercedes C-Class and a Subaru WRX. SUVs made up a third, including a Mercedes G550, a Tesla Model X, a Range Rover and an Alfa Romeo Stelvio. Vans and pickups made up more than one in five: Mercedes Sprinter vans, a Ford E-150, a Toyota Sienna and a Ram 1500.

A full-size van or a high-roof Sprinter takes a specific spot on the trailer, so tell us the height and anything inside when you book. For the G550 or anything you would rather keep out of the weather, ask us to price an enclosed trailer. Most cars travel on an open carrier, which is what the price table describes.

The 60-day clock: Maryland plates for a Texas car

The Maryland MVA gives new residents 60 days to title and register a car brought from another state. Wait longer and you lose the credit for titling tax already paid in Texas and can be cited for out-of-state plates. Under its Plate Where You Live enforcement, cars with out-of-state tags get a written warning first and then daily fines.

Before the title appointment the car needs a Maryland Safety Inspection certificate from a licensed station; the separate emissions (VEIP) notice arrives in the mail after you register. Our Florida to Maryland guide walks through the inspection and VEIP steps in more detail. If you are in Maryland only for a while and keep your Texas residency, the MVA offers a nonresident permit instead.

Maryland to Texas: the move in the other direction

Our Maryland to Texas guide covers the opposite direction, which in our records has a clear spring season, with Prince George’s County and Southern Maryland supplying almost half the cars and a 3-day median. For other routes out of Texas, see our Texas auto transport page.

How we measured it

Our numbers on areas, timing and vehicles come from Neptune Auto Transport’s Texas to Maryland shipments picked up from January 2023 to August 2026, with voided orders removed. Each area is a set of ZIP codes sharing their first three digits, each trip is timed from loading to delivery, the comparison is with our other routes into Maryland, and shares are rounded to 100. The price table draws on a separate source, recent comparable shipments dispatched January to October 2026, and is not a quote. Nothing here names a customer or address or promises a price or date.