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Landscaping contractors in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA

The Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro area has 142 landscaping contractors, or 3.22 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
142
Per 10,000 residents
3.22 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
15.5%
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
221
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
30
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
141 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.70% of source records merged as duplicates, 2.82% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 441,257, 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara

By record count, landscaping is the second largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara.

Per resident, Santa Maria-Santa Barbara carries far more landscaping records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara'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 more of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara's landscaping records carry no street address than across California. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

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

Almost every Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara landscaping records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

No Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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, Santa Maria-Santa Barbara is 3rd of 19 by records per resident, inside the top quarter. 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara are Tyler above it and Santa Rosa-Petaluma below it.

Landscaping contractors, A to Z

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

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