Cedar County, NE has 1.7× more landscaping and lawn-care businesses per resident than the national average.
Cedar County, NE already has 9 with employees and 16 without — 25 landscaping and lawn-care services in total, 30.3 per 10,000 residents against 18.2 nationally. That's 1.7× more than average, so this category is well covered here (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
- In Cedar County
- 9
- Per 10k residents
- 30.3
- National rate
- 18.2
- Ratio
- 1.7× more than average
Population 8,244. Ranked 33 of 42 Nebraska counties with enough landscaping & lawn care data to compare — 1 = fewest per resident.
Source: US Census County Business Patterns ↗Cedar County, NE has 5 more landscaping and lawn-care services with employees than in 2017 — 4 then, 9 now, up 125%. Nationally the count grew 16% over the same years.
What this doesn't tell you: Census counts how many exist each year, not how many opened or closed. A rise of 5 could be 5 new businesses — or 13 openings and 8 closures. It also can't see solo operators without employees, in any year.
Series runs 2017–2023. 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 Cedar County without something specific that the 9already 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 9 above includes all of them together. It cannot tell you how many are any single one.
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