Business phone system for landscaping services

Landscaping services in the United States

County Business Patterns counted 117,969 landscaping services in the U.S. in 2023 (NAICS 561730, Landscaping Services). They employed 802,899 people in mid-March and paid $41.2 billion in annual payroll. The average establishment has 6.8 employees. That is 34.7 establishments for every 100,000 residents.

Florida has the most (10,670), followed by California (9,393), New York (7,725), and Texas (5,568). Relative to population, Vermont leads with 80.3 per 100,000 residents, and District of Columbia has the fewest at 3.1.

Why the phone matters for landscaping services

Landscapers are outdoors all day and take calls about new service, schedule changes and seasonal work. A missed call in spring can be a lost season-long customer.

Calls landscaping services commonly handle:

• A homeowner calls for weekly mowing service.
• A property manager calls about a commercial contract.
• A customer calls to skip a visit because of an event.
• The company calls customers about a rain delay.
• A customer calls about spring cleanup.

Texting and after-hours calls

Landscapers text service-day reminders and weather delays.

After-hours calls are mostly new-service requests.

How big landscaping services are

70.6% of U.S. landscaping services with employees had fewer than five people in March 2023. 85.0% had fewer than ten. Most phone decisions in this industry are made for small teams, where one shared number and sensible routing matter more than a desk phone per person.

Landscaping services by state

Establishment counts for the 51 states (and DC) where Census published a figure, with the rate per 100,000 residents.

Largest metro areas for landscaping services

Census published landscaping company counts for 892 metro and micropolitan areas. The 25 largest:

Callata vs. per-seat pricing for landscaping services in the U.S.

The average U.S. landscaping company has 6.8 employees, so the comparison uses a 7-person team. Priced per seat, 7 users would run $210.00 a month on RingCentral RingEX Core and $174.65 on Ooma Office Pro (month-to-month list prices, checked September 28, 2026). On Callata the same 7 people cost $139.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.

The annual difference against RingCentral's monthly list price comes to $852. Some vendors discount annual contracts; the table shows month-to-month prices.

How Callata works for landscaping services

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

Existing numbers can be ported at no charge, and team texting turns on after the one-time $49 carrier registration (10DLC) is approved.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.