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Landscaping and lawn care companies in Menard County, IL
How Menard County, IL compares with other counties and the U.S. for landscaping and lawn care companies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 3.
- Listings
- 3
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 8
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $6.3M
- On lawn care, cleaning and other household services · $1,213 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.1M
- 28% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.7
- 19% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 11,863
- −3.3% since 2020
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What this means
At $1,213 per household (14% below the U.S. average), households in Menard County spend about $6.3M a year on lawn care, cleaning and other household services. That works out to $2.1M per company, 28% below the U.S. figure of $2.9M. The spending figure covers all lawn care, cleaning and other household services, not only landscaping and lawn care companies.
Menard County has 3 landscaping and lawn care companies on map listings as of September 2026. That is 5.7 per 10,000 households, 19% above the U.S. rate of 4.8.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as landscaping services in Menard County was 8 in 2023. That is one for every 654 households, against one for every 1,095 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 3 SBA-backed loans worth $321K have gone to businesses classed as landscaping services in Menard County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Menard County declined 3.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 3 landscaping and lawn care companies on map listings, Menard County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Menard County compares
The same measures for Illinois and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all lawn care, cleaning and other household services by the landscaping and lawn care companies counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Menard County | Illinois | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.7 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
| Spending per listing | $2.1M | $2.7M | $2.9M |
| Households per official establishment | 654 | 1,000 | 1,095 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +7.6% | +9.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −3.3% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on lawn care, cleaning and other household services | $1,213 | $1,322 | $1,414 |
| Median household income | $82,176 | $83,390 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 38 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 8
- Employees, 2023
- 23
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $748K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 30 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 3
- Amount
- $321K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as landscaping services in Menard County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Menard County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 11,863−3.3% since 2020
- Households
- 5,228
- Median age
- 43.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 314 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 38
- Median household income
- $82,176+10.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $97,054
- Median home value
- $185,500
- Jobs located here
- 1,818
- Daytime population
- 8,264Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Illinois
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Cook County, IL | 68 | 499 | 2.4 | $5.6M | −1.3% | #273 of 1,493 |
| 2Vermilion County, IL | 55 | 9 | 3.0 | $3.6M | −3.7% | #568 of 1,493 |
| 3Whiteside County, IL | 54 | 7 | 3.0 | $3.8M | −2.6% | #596 of 1,493 |
| 4Knox County, IL | 51 | 5 | 2.4 | $4.5M | −4.1% | #670 of 1,493 |
| 5Ogle County, IL | 50 | 9 | 4.3 | $2.9M | −0.7% | #697 of 1,493 |
| 6Grundy County, IL | 50 | 13 | 6.3 | $2.2M | +2.9% | #712 of 1,493 |
| 7DuPage County, IL | 49 | 230 | 6.6 | $2.3M | +0.3% | #730 of 1,493 |
| 8Kendall County, IL | 47 | 37 | 8.2 | $1.8M | +9.9% | #806 of 1,493 |
| 9DeKalb County, IL | 46 | 20 | 5.1 | $2.4M | +1.5% | #823 of 1,493 |
| 10Champaign County, IL | 42 | 48 | 5.6 | $2.1M | +1.8% | #942 of 1,493 |
| Menard County, IL | Not scored | 3 | 5.7 | $2.1M | −3.3% |
Other business types in Menard County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many landscaping and lawn care companies are in Menard County, IL?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 3 landscaping and lawn care companies in Menard County. The listings count landscapers, lawn care, tree services and gardeners. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as landscaping services in 2023.
How much do households in Menard County, IL spend on lawn care, cleaning and other household services?
About $6.3M a year, or $1,213 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 landscaping and lawn care companies on map listings, it comes to $2.1M per company. That spending covers all lawn care, cleaning and other household services, which landscaping and lawn care companies share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,228 households in Menard County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Menard County, IL compare with the U.S. for landscaping and lawn care companies?
Menard County has 5.7 landscaping and lawn care companies per 10,000 households, 19% above the U.S. rate of 4.8. Spending per company is $2.1M, 28% below the U.S. figure of $2.9M. At the U.S. ratio of landscaping and lawn care companies to household spending, Menard County would have about 2, against 3 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 654 households, against one for every 1,095 across the U.S.
How fast is Menard County, IL growing?
Population estimates put Menard County at 11,863 people in 2025, down 3.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 5,228 households. Median household income in Menard County is $82,176, 2% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 10.0%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Menard County has no market score for landscaping and lawn care companies: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.
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