Adair County, IA has 1.5× more landscaping and lawn-care businesses per resident than the national average.
Adair County, IA already has 4 with employees and 16 without — 20 landscaping and lawn-care services in total, 27.0 per 10,000 residents against 18.2 nationally. That's 1.5× more than average, so this category is well covered here (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
- In Adair County
- 4
- Per 10k residents
- 27.0
- National rate
- 18.2
- Ratio
- 1.5× more than average
Population 7,399. Ranked 67 of 74 Iowa counties with enough landscaping & lawn care data to compare — 1 = fewest per resident.
Source: US Census County Business Patterns ↗Census code 561730 covers landscaping services: lawn maintenance and mowing, planting, tree and shrub work, and landscape design and installation.
The blind spot: The code mixes large landscape-installation firms in with routine mowing. A county can have several big design-and-build landscapers and still be short of anyone who will simply cut a lawn every two weeks.
County Business Patterns counts establishments with paid employees. A solo operator with no payroll — the most likely competitor for most of these businesses — is invisible to it, in every county, including this one.
There are more of these per resident here than in the country at large. That is a genuine argument against starting one in Adair County without something specific that the 4already operating do not have. It is not fatal — a crowded category can still have a bad-service niche — but “there is room” is not the argument available to you here, and any tool that tells you otherwise is guessing.
Census counts these as one industry, so the 4 above includes all of them together. It cannot tell you how many are any single one.
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