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Landscaping contractors in Merced, CA

The Merced, CA metro area has 50 landscaping contractors, or 1.71 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
50
Per 10,000 residents
1.71 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
0
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
10.0%
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
53
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
6
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
50 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 291,920, 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 Merced

By record count, landscaping is the second largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Merced, behind other home service and ahead of plumbing. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Merced.

Per resident, Merced carries fewer landscaping records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Merced'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.

Address completeness on Merced's landscaping records is close to the California figure.

A far smaller share of Merced's landscaping records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. Where the join is this weak the share above is a floor, and no record on this page is described on the strength of it.

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

More landscaping licences were issued in Merced over the last twelve months than lapsed, so the licensed side of this trade in this metro grew. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

More active California licences covering landscaping in Merced 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 Merced carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

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

No landscaping record in Merced first appeared or was flagged closed over the last twelve months, so this page carries no twelve-month movement for this trade and metro.

No city inside Merced 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, Merced is 15th of 19 by records per resident, around the middle. 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 Merced are Stockton-Lodi above it and Huntington-Ashland below it.

Landscaping contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in Merced

Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Merced, so it is answered on the overview above instead.