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Landscaping contractors in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area has 1,063 landscaping contractors, or 2.33 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
1,063
Per 10,000 residents
2.33 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
16
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
3
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
15.7%
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
1,172
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
175
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,059 independent, 0 franchise brand, 3 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.19% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.98% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 4,566,961, 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont

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

Per resident, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont sits close to the California rate for landscaping, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont'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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's landscaping records is close to the California figure.

The share of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's landscaping records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.

Almost every San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont landscaping records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's landscaping records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More landscaping records first appeared in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont is 8th 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont are Lakeland-Winter Haven above it and Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers below it.

Landscaping contractors, A to Z

1,053 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 3 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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