Van Buren County, IA has about as many landscaping and lawn-care businesses per resident as the national average.
Van Buren County, IA has 4 with employees and 11 without — 15 landscaping and lawn-care services in total, 20.6 per 10,000 residents, about the national rate of 18.2 (US Census, County Business Patterns + Nonemployer Statistics 2023).
- In Van Buren County
- 4
- Per 10k residents
- 20.6
- National rate
- 18.2
- Ratio
- About the national rate
Population 7,266. Ranked 41 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.
Van Buren 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 4 above includes all of them together. It cannot tell you how many are any single one.
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