Clare County, MI has about as many landscaping and lawn-care businesses per resident as the national average.
Clare County, MI has 13 with employees and 39 without — 52 landscaping and lawn-care services in total, 16.6 per 10,000 residents, about the national rate of 18.2 (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
- In Clare County
- 13
- Per 10k residents
- 16.6
- National rate
- 18.2
- Ratio
- About the national rate
Population 31,376. Ranked 22 of 71 Michigan counties with enough landscaping & lawn care data to compare — 1 = fewest per resident.
Sources: US Census County Business Patterns ↗ (businesses with employees) and Nonemployer Statistics ↗ (sole proprietors). Every figure here is the two added together.
Clare County, MI had 49 landscaping and lawn-care services in 2017 and 52 in 2023 — little changed. Nationally the count grew 32% 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. A year Census suppressed for this county is left out rather than counted as zero.
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 only establishments with paid employees, which is why this page adds Nonemployer Statistics — the sole operators with no payroll, who are the majority in most of these trades. Both are counted above, and both are on census.gov if you want to check them.
Clare County sits close to the national rate for this category, which means this number is not an argument in either direction. Supply here looks ordinary. If you want to start this business, the case has to come from something this measurement cannot see — pricing, service quality, or a neighbourhood nobody covers.
Census counts these as one industry, so the 13 above includes all of them together. It cannot tell you how many are any single one.
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