Pros on RecordHome-service contractors, from public records

Metro fact page

Landscaping contractors in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

The Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area has 2,240 landscaping contractors, or 4.55 per 10,000 residents.

What landscaping work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national landscaping page. Massachusetts publishes no business-level licence source for landscaping, so this page shows no licensed share; the Massachusetts page says what it does publish.

The facts

Landscaping contractors in this metro
2,240
Per 10,000 residents
4.55 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
17
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
6
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Massachusetts. No landscaping record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
2,228 independent, 5 franchise brand, 5 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.58% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.45% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 4,919,179, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about landscaping in Boston-Cambridge-Newton

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

Per resident, Boston-Cambridge-Newton sits close to the Massachusetts rate for landscaping, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Boston-Cambridge-Newton's landscaping records is close to the Massachusetts figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Address completeness on Boston-Cambridge-Newton's landscaping records is close to the Massachusetts figure.

Massachusetts publishes no business-level licence source for landscaping that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Boston-Cambridge-Newton is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no landscaping record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for landscaping in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

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

Boston-Cambridge-Newton's franchise-brand and corporate-owned landscaping records are close to even in number.

Almost none of Boston-Cambridge-Newton'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 Boston-Cambridge-Newton 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.

The cities inside Boston-Cambridge-Newton that differ from the wider metro enough on landscaping to carry pages of their own are Boston and Waltham.

Among the 3 Massachusetts metro areas this site publishes a landscaping page for, Boston-Cambridge-Newton is 2nd of 3 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 Massachusetts.

Ordered by landscaping records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a landscaping page for, the hubs either side of Boston-Cambridge-Newton are Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach above it and Akron below it.

Landscaping contractors, A to Z

2,216 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 7 further pages linked below, not withheld. The city pages below cover the same metro in smaller pieces.

Landscaping by city

Other trades in Boston-Cambridge-Newton