Bracken County, KY has 1.2× more landscaping and lawn-care businesses per resident than the national average.
Bracken County, KY already has 4 with employees and 14 without — 18 landscaping and lawn-care services in total, 21.3 per 10,000 residents against 18.2 nationally. That's 1.2× more than average, so this category is well covered here (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
- In Bracken County
- 4
- Per 10k residents
- 21.3
- National rate
- 18.2
- Ratio
- 1.2× more than average
Population 8,435. Ranked 21 of 68 Kentucky counties with enough landscaping & lawn care data to compare — 1 = fewest per resident.
Source: US Census County Business Patterns ↗Bracken County, KY had 4 landscaping and lawn-care services with employees in 2020 and 4 in 2023 — little changed. Nationally the count grew 10% over the same years.
What this doesn't tell you: Census counts how many exist each year, not how many opened or closed. A count that barely moves can still hide plenty of churn underneath it. It also can't see solo operators without employees, in any year.
Series runs 2020–2023. Earlier vintages exist but are not comparable: Census changed which small counties it publishes after 2016, so including them would show counties losing an industry that never left.
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 Bracken 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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