Industry · NAICS 56173

Landscaping services

The United States has 117,969 employer establishments in landscaping services (3.5 per 10,000 residents), employing 802,899 people at an average annual pay of $51,286, plus 537,970 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments: 117,969; 537,970 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 3.5
Paid employees: 802,899
Average annual pay: $51,286

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Places ranked by residents per establishment: more residents for each business, fewer competitors per resident. A count, not a measure of demand: retirement areas, low incomes or tourism change what a business needs.

Places

State

Size

Landscaping services by residents per establishment
#	Place					vs US
1	McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX	901,096	36	25,030	0.4	0.11×	223	$33,928	3,107
2	Laredo, TX	271,942	15	18,129	0.6	0.16×	109	$38,413	652
3	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	428,906	27	15,885	0.6	0.18×	153	$32,065	1,221
4	Corbin, KY	149,593	13	11,507	0.9	0.25×	229	$36,183	341
5	El Centro, CA	180,683	16	11,293	0.9	0.25×	92	$36,293	335
6	Odessa, TX	165,946	16	10,372	1	0.28×	57	$38,561	238
7	El Paso, TX	876,641	88	9,962	1	0.29×	801	$30,742	—
8	Alexandria, LA	148,419	18	8,246	1.2	0.35×	284	$41,222	414
9	Lumberton, NC	118,005	15	7,867	1.3	0.36×	83	$35,108	422
10	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	153,197	20	7,660	1.3	0.37×	80	$46,213	221
11	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	7,587,646	1,076	7,052	1.4	0.40×	16,833	$52,081	15,297
12	Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ	124,716	18	6,929	1.4	0.41×	82	$35,049	186
13	Charleston, WV	202,801	30	6,760	1.5	0.42×	88	$45,000	190
14	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	397,475	59	6,737	1.5	0.42×	512	$35,715	1,195
15	Farmington, NM	120,754	18	6,709	1.5	0.43×	54	$67,648	57
16	Hammond, LA	138,101	21	6,576	1.5	0.43×	186	$39,409	593
17	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	917,599	140	6,554	1.5	0.44×	1,159	$40,874	1,165
18	Fayetteville, NC	392,345	60	6,539	1.5	0.44×	559	$36,213	801
19	Merced, CA	294,319	46	6,398	1.6	0.45×	192	$45,906	426
20	Urban Honolulu, HI	989,698	155	6,385	1.6	0.45×	1,699	$49,862	990
21	Killeen-Temple, TX	502,497	79	6,361	1.6	0.45×	552	$40,324	789
22	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	12,881,909	2,038	6,321	1.6	0.45×	27,960	$47,821	15,309
23	Show Low, AZ	109,197	18	6,067	1.6	0.47×	71	$38,549	95
24	Yuma, AZ	214,228	36	5,951	1.7	0.48×	244	$35,041	576
25	Cleveland, TN	130,260	22	5,921	1.7	0.48×	138	$45,188	321

1–25 of 398 places

Sources: County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024).

Residents per establishment is the place's population estimate for 2023 divided by its establishments; more residents per business means fewer competitors per resident. Places with fewer than the minimum establishments are left out because a handful of businesses makes the ratio jump around.
Metro areas are made of whole counties and their figures are the exact sums of those counties'. A metro area is listed under its principal state.
This compares counts of businesses with counts of residents. It does not measure demand, spending power, visitors, the size or quality of the businesses, or whether a market is open. Employment and payroll carry the Census Bureau's noise infusion.
County Business Patterns 2023 uses NAICS 2017 codes; the nonemployer figures use NAICS 2022. Industries are matched by name between editions.
Growth needs a second reference year of County Business Patterns in the same industry classification; only 2023 is loaded, so there is no growth column yet.

Federal contracts in this industry

Federal agencies obligated $501M on contracts under NAICS 56173 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (3,630 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Where the work was performed, as agencies report it (often the contractor's office). Metro areas are the exact sums of their counties. Cities are estimated: each action's county money split by the share of its ZIP code's land inside the city, so a city's figure is part of its county's.

USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS)

See open recompetes in NAICS 56173

In the United States

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Federal contracts in this industry

Metro areas

Counties

Cities and towns