2.7.8.1Vertical
Irrigation Installation & Maintenance
Landscape contractors installing and servicing lawn irrigation systems.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Landscaping & Lawn Care (2.7.8), the segment that Irrigation Installation & Maintenance sits within — not Irrigation Installation & Maintenance on its own.
- Market size
- ~$115B
- Growth
- ~8.4%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
- Companies
- ~117,100
FragmentationHighly fragmentedEstimate
U.S. Census Bureau 2022 CBP/Economic Census, NAICS 561730 (Landscaping Services) — spans residential and commercial.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Recurring maintenance contracts plus design-build projects
Key economics
- Recurring revenue
- High
- EBITDA margin
- 10–20%
- Capex intensity
- Moderate
route-based recurring maintenance
Characteristics
- Largest home-services category, anchored by recurring maintenance.
- Route density and procurement scale drive advantage.
- Fragmented base beneath a few national players.
M&A deal context
Deal activityHigh
Who’s acquiring
- PE-backed landscaping platforms
- National maintenance consolidators
- Regional roll-ups
What’s driving deals
- Roll-ups of fragmented local landscapers.
- Recurring route-based maintenance economics.
- Procurement and routing scale advantages.
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