These garden equipment figures cover the measurement periods and populations identified in the available source material. Estimates, surveys and forecasts retain their reported scope.
Key Garden Equipment Statistics
The main findings are:
- The U.S. had 117,969 employer establishments in NAICS 561730 landscaping services in 2023.
- Landscaping and groundskeeping workers numbered 943,430 in May 2024.
- Lawn and garden equipment caused an estimated 76,137 emergency-department-treated injuries in 2023 (United States and territories).
- Males accounted for 40,618 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; male).
- About 121 million pieces of gasoline-powered lawn and garden equipment were estimated in use in the United States in 2011.
- The USDA Forest Service study measured residential turfgrass evapotranspiration at 0.6–1.3 mm per day in humid cities (study visits; published 2023; U.S. residential lawns in humid cities).
- 117,000 landscaping services nationwide in 2022 in its paid-employee business summary.
- First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers numbered 124,130 in May 2024.
- Chain saws accounted for an estimated 23,159 ED-treated injuries in 2023 (United States and territories).
- Females accounted for 35,408 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; female).
- The EPA report projected 136 million pieces in use by 2018 after a 13% increase from 2011 across equipment types (2018 projection from 2011).
- The study measured residential turfgrass evapotranspiration at 2.2–3.6 mm per day in hot and dry cities (study visits; published 2023; U.S. residential lawns in hot and dry cities).
- The Census profile excludes retailing landscaping materials and installation/maintenance of those materials, which are classified in NAICS 444240/444220 retail categories (2023 classification).
- Tree trimmers and pruners numbered 47,870 in May 2024.
- Hand garden tools accounted for an estimated 35,660 ED-treated injuries in 2023 (United States and territories).
Contents
- Key Garden Equipment Statistics
- Garden equipment industry scale and landscaping business data
- Garden equipment employment and wage statistics
- Garden equipment injury statistics by product and age
- Garden equipment injury outcomes and sex patterns
- Garden equipment emissions and equipment-population trends
- Garden water-use statistics for residential lawns
Garden equipment industry scale and landscaping business data
- The U.S. had 117,969 employer establishments in NAICS 561730 landscaping services in 2023. (561730: Landscaping services – Census…)
- The Census Bureau reported 117,000 landscaping services nationwide in 2022 in its paid-employee business summary. (561730: Landscaping services – Census…)
- The Census profile excludes retailing landscaping materials and installation/maintenance of those materials, which are classified in NAICS 444240/444220 retail categories (2023 classification). (561730: Landscaping services – Census…)
- The Census Annual Business Survey universe requires employer firms with paid employees and at least $1,000 in annual receipts (2022 survey universe). (Snapshot of Service Industries: 2022)
NAICS landscaping services includes landscape care, installation, and some design/construction services; it is not a retail-only garden-equipment count.
Rounded national count; paid-employee businesses, not nonemployer firms.
Classification context; do not interpret as a sales total.
Universe excludes nonemployer businesses and firms outside the survey scope.
Garden equipment employment and wage statistics
- Landscaping and groundskeeping workers numbered 943,430 in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers numbered 124,130 in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- Tree trimmers and pruners numbered 47,870 in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- Vegetation pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators numbered 25,200 in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- Mean annual pay was $40,880 for landscaping and groundskeeping workers in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- Mean annual pay was $59,380 for first-line landscaping and groundskeeping supervisors in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- Mean annual pay was $54,970 for tree trimmers and pruners in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- Mean annual pay was $45,960 for vegetation pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- California had 103,570 landscaping and groundskeeping workers in May 2024, the highest state employment listed by BLS. (Data tables for the overview…)
- Florida had 84,250 landscaping and groundskeeping workers in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- Texas had 68,700 landscaping and groundskeeping workers in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- Massachusetts had the highest listed state mean annual wage for landscaping and groundskeeping workers at $49,130 in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
- Mississippi had a listed mean annual wage of $32,750 for landscaping and groundskeeping workers in May 2024. (Data tables for the overview…)
BLS OEWS occupational employment estimate; occupation includes hand and power-tool grounds work, not equipment sales.
BLS OEWS estimate.
BLS OEWS estimate; tree work is one part of garden and landscape maintenance.
Mean wage, not median or equipment-worker pay.
Mean wage.
State OEWS estimate.
Among states shown in the BLS featured table; mean wage.
State mean wage.
Garden equipment injury statistics by product and age
- Lawn and garden equipment caused an estimated 76,137 emergency-department-treated injuries in 2023 (United States and territories). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Chain saws accounted for an estimated 23,159 ED-treated injuries in 2023 (United States and territories). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Hand garden tools accounted for an estimated 35,660 ED-treated injuries in 2023 (United States and territories). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Hatchets and axes accounted for an estimated 12,110 ED-treated injuries in 2023 (United States and territories). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- People aged 65 and older accounted for 36,326 of the 76,137 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; age 65+). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- People aged 25–64 accounted for 29,712 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; age 25-64). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- People aged 15–24 accounted for 4,277 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; age 15-24). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Children aged 5–14 accounted for 3,809 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; age 5-14). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Children aged 0–4 accounted for 2,013 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; age 0-4). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Among chain-saw injuries, adults aged 25–64 accounted for 15,519 estimated cases in 2023 (United States and territories; chain saws, age 25-64). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Among hand-garden-tool injuries, adults aged 25–64 accounted for 18,299 estimated cases in 2023 (United States and territories; hand garden tools, age 25-64). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Among hatchet-and-axe injuries, adults aged 25–64 accounted for 7,382 estimated cases in 2023 (United States and territories; hatchets/axes, age 25-64). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
NEISS national estimate; ED-treated product-related injuries only.
Product-group estimate.
Age subgroup of ED-treated product-related injury estimate.
Age subgroup.
NEISS product-age subgroup.
Garden equipment injury outcomes and sex patterns
- Males accounted for 40,618 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; male). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Females accounted for 35,408 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; female). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Males accounted for 21,265 estimated chain-saw injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; chain saws, male). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Females accounted for 1,894 estimated chain-saw injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; chain saws, female). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Males accounted for 21,338 estimated hand-garden-tool injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; hand garden tools, male). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Females accounted for 14,322 estimated hand-garden-tool injuries in 2023 (United States and territories; hand garden tools, female). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- ED treatment with release or related disposition covered 66,221 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment cases in 2023 (United States and territories). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Hospitalization or death accounted for 9,915 estimated lawn-and-garden-equipment cases in 2023 (United States and territories). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Hospitalization or death accounted for 1,722 estimated chain-saw cases in 2023 (United States and territories; chain saws). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Hospitalization or death accounted for 3,372 estimated hand-garden-tool cases in 2023 (United States and territories; hand garden tools). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
- Hospitalization or death accounted for 293 estimated hatchet-and-axe cases in 2023 (United States and territories; hatchets/axes). (NEISS Data Highlights – Calendar…)
NEISS sex subgroup.
CPSC disposition category; not equivalent to all injuries or all product users.
CPSC combined disposition category.
Garden equipment emissions and equipment-population trends
- About 121 million pieces of gasoline-powered lawn and garden equipment were estimated in use in the United States in 2011. (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
- The EPA report projected 136 million pieces in use by 2018 after a 13% increase from 2011 across equipment types (2018 projection from 2011). (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
- Lawn and garden equipment emitted about 461,800 tons of VOCs in 2011. (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
- Lawn and garden equipment emitted about 5,793,200 tons of carbon monoxide in 2011. (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
- Lawn and garden equipment emitted about 68,500 tons of NOx in 2011. (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
- Lawn and garden equipment emitted about 20,700 tons of PM10 in 2011, including about 19,000 tons of PM2.5. (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
- Lawn and garden equipment emitted about 20.4 million tons of CO2 in 2011. (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
- Lawn and garden equipment represented nearly 4% of all U.S. VOC emissions in the 2011 EPA analysis. (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
- Lawn and garden equipment represented 12% of all U.S. carbon-monoxide emissions in the 2011 EPA analysis. (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
- All nonroad sources represented 17% of VOC emissions in the EPA analysis (2011). (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
- All nonroad sources represented 29% of carbon-monoxide emissions in the EPA analysis (2011). (National Emissions from Lawn and…)
EPA conference report estimate for gasoline lawn and garden equipment; historical, not current ownership.
Historical projection, not an observed 2018 census.
Inventory estimate for gasoline lawn and garden equipment.
Inventory estimate.
Inventory estimate; PM2.5 is a subset of PM10 in the report.
EPA report comparison based on its inventory definitions.
EPA report comparison.
This is all nonroad equipment, not garden equipment alone.
All nonroad equipment, not garden equipment alone.
Garden water-use statistics for residential lawns
- The USDA Forest Service study measured residential turfgrass evapotranspiration at 0.6–1.3 mm per day in humid cities (study visits; published 2023; U.S. residential lawns in humid cities). (Evapotranspiration of Residential Lawns Across…)
- The study measured residential turfgrass evapotranspiration at 2.2–3.6 mm per day in hot and dry cities (study visits; published 2023; U.S. residential lawns in hot and dry cities). (Evapotranspiration of Residential Lawns Across…)
Study sample of 79 households across six cities; ET is measured water loss, not irrigation applied.
Study sample of 79 households across six cities.