Landscaping Business Valuation Multiples 2025
Landscaping businesses command 2.5x–4.5x SDE in today's market. PE consolidation is accelerating. Here's what your landscaping company is worth and what drives the multiple.
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Landscaping Business Valuation in Louisiana: New Orleans & Baton Rouge Market Data 2025
Louisiana landscaping businesses benefit from New Orleans's premium historic district commercial accounts, Baton Rouge's petrochemical campus grounds, and Louisiana's declining income tax rate — with year-round subtropical growing season.
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Jason Taken
HedgeStone Business Advisors
Louisiana's landscaping market is defined by a unique combination: New Orleans's distinctive historic district aesthetic (Garden District mansions, Audubon Park management, and the French Quarter commercial corridor) and Baton Rouge's large petrochemical and government campus grounds management market. Louisiana's subtropical climate provides a genuine 12-month growing season — dramatically longer than Northern markets — creating year-round service revenue. Louisiana's income tax is declining under recent reform.
Louisiana Landscaping Multiples
Louisiana landscaping businesses sell for 2.5x–4.5x SDE. New Orleans (Orleans, Jefferson Counties) commands the strongest multiples — premium Garden District estate landscaping for historic Victorian mansions ($15,000–$45,000 annual accounts), Audubon Park and City Park commercial grounds management, the French Quarter commercial corridor landscape maintenance, and premium residential accounts in Metairie's Bucktown and Lakeview neighborhoods. Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish) adds ExxonMobil and Shell Motiva petrochemical campus grounds management, LSU's enormous Tiger Stadium and campus grounds, and the state government complex at the Louisiana State Capitol. The Northshore (St. Tammany Parish) adds the fastest-growing residential market in Louisiana — Covington, Mandeville, and Madisonville affluent residential accounts.
New Orleans Historic District and Garden District Accounts
New Orleans's Garden District is the South's most iconic enclave of antebellum and Victorian mansion estates — Prytania Street, St. Charles Avenue, and the Magazine Street corridor are lined with 5,000–12,000 square foot historic properties with formal gardens, mature live oak and magnolia plantings, and elaborate historic landscape features that require specialized horticultural knowledge. Landscaping companies that have established relationships with Garden District estate owners benefit from extraordinarily low client churn — these homeowners are deeply invested in their historic properties and maintain decades-long relationships with trusted landscape professionals. Annual accounts in the Garden District range from $20,000–$60,000 — among the highest per-account residential landscaping revenue in the South.
Baton Rouge Petrochemical Campus Grounds
Baton Rouge's industrial corridor along the Mississippi River — home to ExxonMobil's massive Baton Rouge refinery (the nation's second-largest refinery by capacity), Shell Motiva's Convent refinery, and dozens of petrochemical and manufacturing facilities — creates a large commercial grounds management market for industrial facility landscaping. Petrochemical facility grounds management requires compliance with OSHA PSM (Process Safety Management) landscaping standards, certified industrial safety credentials for personnel working near processing units, and experience with the specific aesthetic and functional landscape requirements of industrial facility buffer zones. Landscaping companies with petrochemical facility grounds management credentials in Louisiana command the highest industrial landscaping billing rates in the South.
Louisiana Declining Tax Rate — Improving Exit Window
Louisiana's top income tax rate has been reduced under recent reform — from 6% to 4.25% on income above $50,000 (effective 2022), making Louisiana's income tax substantially more favorable for business exits than it was historically. On a $1.5M landscaping exit, Louisiana sellers pay approximately $63,750 in state income taxes at the 4.25% rate — versus $0 in Texas or Florida, $66,000 in Arkansas (4.4%), or $93,000 in South Carolina (6.2%). Total effective rate in Louisiana is approximately 27–28%. Louisiana landscaping business owners with Garden District estate accounts, LSU campus grounds credentials, or ExxonMobil petrochemical facility landscaping relationships should engage a broker experienced in Louisiana's distinctive landscaping market.
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