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Showing Columbus, OH
Franklin County · pop 1,338,903
1,813 landscaping and lawn-care services operate in Columbus's county — 273 with employees, 1,540 without (2023).
74%
of the national rate — landscaping and lawn-care services per 10,000 residents in Franklin County, OH
Businesses per 10,000 residents · national rate = 100% · axis 0–200%
The shaded band is the range Scoutway treats as ordinary. A county inside it is average, and the difference from the national rate is not an argument in either direction.
Moderate confidence — only the 2023 vintage has a measurable count for this county and category, so there is nothing to compare it against.
US Census County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023 · NAICS 561730. This measures how many of these businesses exist, not how many customers want one.
13.5 per 10,000 residents vs 18.2 nationally — 1.3× fewer than average.
Fewer of these per resident than the national rate — a lead to check, not a verdict.
What this doesn't tell you: A low count can mean an opening — or that there's less local demand for it. This counts how many businesses exist, including sole proprietors, but not how many customers want one. Treat it as a lead to check, not a verdict.
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- Employer count: Census CBP 2023, NAICS 561730 ↗
- Nonemployer count: Census NES 2023, NAICS 56173 — the 5-digit parent of 561730, which is the finest level county NES publishes ↗
Both tables open scoped to Franklin County, OH. The two integers above are those two tables added together — the employer count and the sole-proprietor count are published by different Census programs and neither one alone is the figure we quoted.
The other 3 categories we can measure here
janitorial and cleaning servicesAbout the national rate · Franklin County
This county's column lands inside the ordinary range. There is no gap here worth putting a figure on.
Businesses per 10,000 residents · national rate = 100% · axis 0–200%
Ordinary supply here — this number is not an argument in either direction.
Franklin County, OH has 259 with employees and 4,079 without — 4,338 janitorial and cleaning services in total, 32.4 per 10,000 residents, about the national rate of 32.7 (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
Moderate confidence — only the 2023 vintage has a measurable count for this county and category, so there is nothing to compare it against; Census counts several trades under NAICS 561720, so this total covers all of them together rather than this one business.
The permanent page for this category →pet care services (excluding veterinary)About the national rate · Franklin County
This county's column lands inside the ordinary range. There is no gap here worth putting a figure on.
Businesses per 10,000 residents · national rate = 100% · axis 0–200%
Ordinary supply here — this number is not an argument in either direction.
Franklin County, OH has 94 with employees and 596 without — 690 pet care services (excluding veterinary) in total, 5.2 per 10,000 residents, about the national rate of 4.7 (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
Moderate confidence — only the 2023 vintage has a measurable count for this county and category, so there is nothing to compare it against.
The permanent page for this category →building-exterior services (pressure washing, gutters, pools)1.3× more than average · Franklin County
This county's column rises past the national rate. There is no shortfall to measure, so there is no figure to print.
Businesses per 10,000 residents · national rate = 100% · axis 0–200%
Well covered here — we'd point you elsewhere for this one.
Franklin County, OH already has 30 with employees and 689 without — 719 building-exterior services (pressure washing, gutters, pools) in total, 5.4 per 10,000 residents against 4.1 nationally. That's 1.3× more than average, so this category is well covered here (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
Moderate confidence — only the 2023 vintage has a measurable count for this county and category, so there is nothing to compare it against; Census counts several trades under NAICS 561790, so this total covers all of them together rather than this one business.
The permanent page for this category →About the data
These are counts of businesses that exist, not of customers who want one. A low count can mean an opening or it can mean less local demand — a county with few pool services may simply have few pools. Categories with no honest read are missing from this page rather than shown as zero: a suppressed Census cell and a genuine zero look identical, and we will not guess between them.
Research preview. The catalog is twenty business ideas curated by hand — there is no scanner and never was. County figures are the 2023 vintage of both Census programs; the Census publishes one vintage a year and it lags, so 2023 is the most recent data that exists, not a snapshot of today.
Sources: US Census County Business Patterns ↗ (businesses with employees) and Nonemployer Statistics ↗ (sole proprietors). Every figure here is the two added together.
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