5.3.6.4Vertical

Landscaping & Grounds Maintenance

Companies maintaining commercial and institutional grounds and landscapes.

Market snapshot

These figures describe Facilities Management & Maintenance (5.3.6), the segment that Landscaping & Grounds Maintenance sits within. They are not figures for Landscaping & Grounds Maintenance on its own.

Market size
~$55B
Growth
~8.6%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
Companies
~19,547 firms
Firms by employee count

91.5% of firms have fewer than 20 employees: 17,890 micro-businesses, below most mandates.

The investable universe1,657 firms with 20+ employees
20–99
1,05364%
100–499
30618%
500+
29818%

The one genuinely recurring model in the sector: multi-year service contracts against occupied buildings rather than project work. That is why it grew faster than the construction segments it sits beside. Contracts renew, revenue is visible, and the buyer pool extends beyond construction into business services.

NAICS 561210, 561790. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census.

Business model & economics

Revenue model

Multi-year integrated facilities-management contracts

Key economics

Revenue per firm
$2,822,300
Revenue per employee
$138,395
Employees per firm
17.4
Recurring revenue
High

recurring multi-year service contracts

EBITDA margin
Steady contract-services economics
Capex intensity
Low

Characteristics

  • Balanced cost base: payroll is 37% of revenue, leaving room to scale margin without cutting staff
  • Deep strategic-buyer pool: 298 firms exceed 500 employees, so a scaled asset has trade buyers
  • Recurring, multi-year contract structure.
  • Driven by outsourcing of non-core building operations.
  • Consolidating around scaled integrated-FM providers.

NAICS 561210, 561790. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census.

Geographic concentration

AlabamaAlaskaColoradoGeorgiaIndianaKansasMaineMassachusettsMinnesotaNew JerseyNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOklahomaPennsylvaniaSouth DakotaTexasWyomingConnecticutMissouriWest VirginiaIllinoisNew MexicoArkansasCaliforniaDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaHawaiiIowaKentuckyMarylandMichiganMississippiMontanaNew HampshireNew YorkOhioOregonTennesseeUtahVirginiaWashingtonWisconsinNebraskaSouth CarolinaIdahoVermontLouisianaRhode IslandArizonaFloridaNevada

Follows occupied commercial and residential property in the Sunbelt, where Arizona and Florida carry twice the national concentration, on large managed communities and year-round building-services demand.

ArizonaFloridaNevada

U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses (firms by state), NAICS 561210/561790. Concentration shown by location quotient.

M&A deal context

Deal activityHigh

Who’s acquiring

  • Integrated-FM strategics
  • PE-backed facilities platforms
  • Building-services consolidators

What’s driving deals

  • Recurring-contract revenue and outsourcing growth.
  • Consolidation around integrated providers.
  • Cross-sell of bundled building services.

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