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Landscaping contractors in Bakersfield-Delano, CA

The Bakersfield-Delano, CA metro area has 86 landscaping contractors, or 0.94 per 10,000 residents.

What landscaping work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national landscaping page. California publishes a business-level licence source for landscaping, and the California page lists which classes count.

The facts

Landscaping contractors in this metro
86
Per 10,000 residents
0.94 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
3
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
17.4%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. California licenses the business itself, so the share is measured against business-level records. About 47% of California licensees are sole owners, whose published address is frequently a home.
Active licenses with no public listing
121
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
21
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
86 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.16% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 913,820, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about landscaping in Bakersfield-Delano

By record count, landscaping is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Bakersfield-Delano, behind plumbing and ahead of electrical. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Bakersfield-Delano.

Per resident, Bakersfield-Delano carries far fewer landscaping records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Bakersfield-Delano's landscaping records is close to the California figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far fewer of Bakersfield-Delano's landscaping records are missing a street address than across California.

The share of Bakersfield-Delano's landscaping records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.

Almost every Bakersfield-Delano landscaping record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

More landscaping licences lapsed in Bakersfield-Delano over the last twelve months than were issued. A lapse is a licence that stopped being current, not a business that stopped trading. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

More active California licences covering landscaping in Bakersfield-Delano have no matching record in open place data than this page lists records at all, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to landscaping cleanly enough to print, so Bakersfield-Delano carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

No Bakersfield-Delano landscaping record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.

No Bakersfield-Delano landscaping record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More landscaping records first appeared in Bakersfield-Delano over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Bakersfield-Delano differs from the metro enough on landscaping to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site publishes a landscaping page for, Bakersfield-Delano carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a landscaping page for rather than every metro area in California.

Ordered by landscaping records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a landscaping page for, the hubs either side of Bakersfield-Delano are El Paso above it and Omaha below it.

Landscaping contractors, A to Z

85 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

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