Business phone system for landscaping services in Akron, OH

How many landscaping services are in Akron, OH?

County Business Patterns counts 299 landscaping services (NAICS 561730, Landscaping Services) in the Akron, OH metro area for 2023. Together they reported 3,274 mid-March employees and $183.2 million of payroll for the year. That ranks 75th of the 892 metro and micropolitan areas where Census published a count for this industry.

With 702,000 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, that is 42.6 landscaping services per 100,000 people, 22.8% above the national rate of 34.7. Establishments average 10.9 employees, 60.9% above the U.S. average of 6.8. Payroll per employee comes to $55,942, 9.1% above the national $51,286.

Team sizes at landscaping services in Akron, OH

Of the landscaping services in Akron, OH that had employees in March 2023, 74.2% had fewer than five (the U.S. share is 70.6%). 88.5% had fewer than ten. Small teams usually share the phone: the person who answers is often also serving a customer or doing the job, which is when calls get missed.

What landscaping services in Akron, OH use the phone for

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.

Typical inbound and outbound calls for landscaping services in Akron, OH:

• A customer calls about spring cleanup.
• A property manager calls about a commercial contract.
• A homeowner calls for weekly mowing service.

When nobody can pick up

After-hours calls are mostly new-service requests.

Business-hours routing in Callata sends calls to voicemail, a teammate's cell or an AI agent once the day ends, and voicemails arrive transcribed with an urgency flag.

What a phone system costs a landscaping company in Akron, OH

The average landscaping company in Akron, OH has 10.9 employees, so an 11-person team is a reasonable benchmark. Priced per seat, 11 users would run $330.00 a month on RingCentral RingEX Core and $274.45 on Ooma Office Pro (month-to-month list prices, checked September 28, 2026). On Callata the same 11 people cost $219.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.

The annual difference against RingCentral's monthly list price comes to $1,332. Some vendors discount annual contracts; the table shows month-to-month prices.

Local area codes for landscaping services in Akron, OH

NANPA records place the exchanges of the area's named cities and towns in 2 area codes. 330 has the most, with 239 of 360 exchanges (66%). Callata's plan includes up to 3 local numbers; you can pick them in the area codes your customers recognize, subject to carrier inventory, or port the number you already have for free.

Setting up Callata for a landscaping company in Akron, OH

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.

If you already have a number in Akron, OH, porting it to Callata is free. Texting from a local number requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC, $49), and the numbers available in any area code depend on carrier inventory when you choose them.

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.