How Competitive Is the Landscaper Map Pack in Your Metro Vancouver City?

Rankwise Lab — Market Study · July 2026

This is a Rankwise Lab Market Study — public Google data, not a client result. Rankwise has no landscaping clients today; this isn't a pitch.

Quick definition: the "Map Pack" is the cluster of businesses Google shows at the top of Maps results for a search — usually the top three you see.

What's the short answer?

Which fight you're in depends on your city, not just your own business. In Coquitlam, one company — Premier Grounds Contracting Ltd. — holds 20 of the city's 43 tracked Map Pack appearances across landscaping search terms — no other city comes close. West Vancouver runs a near-duopoly: two businesses, TerraCrest Landscaping of West Vancouver and Belleview Landscaping, hold 19 of that city's 21 appearances between them. Meanwhile Vancouver and Surrey, the two biggest markets by population, are wide open — no single competitor holds more than four appearances out of 25 to 30. Your city's competition landscape is as important as your own ranking position.

Why does this matter to a landscaping business owner in Metro Vancouver?

If you run garden maintenance, lawn care, hedge trimming, or any landscaping specialty in this region, the businesses that show up at the top of Google Maps in your city are the ones getting the call before you do. Whether that field is locked up by one or two operators or split evenly among a dozen changes what it takes to get noticed. A business in West Vancouver is fighting an entrenched pair. A business in Vancouver proper is fighting fragmentation — nobody has locked anything up yet.

How was this data collected?

Rankwise pulled Google search results for 216 landscaping-related search terms — 12 landscaping categories across 18 Metro Vancouver cities. Searches ran from a Coquitlam, British Columbia location via SerpAPI against public Google results. The data was generated July 9, 2026, and reflects a single point in time. It shows who Google displays and what their review profiles look like — it does not show click data, call volume, or why Google ranks any one business over another.

Which businesses hold the most Map Pack positions?

Across all 216 searches, 251 distinct businesses appeared at least once. Of the 604 tracked appearance records used later in this study, 235 didn't resolve to a named city — every city-level number below counts only the resolved records. Most appeared only once or twice. A small handful appeared repeatedly, and where they appeared tells the real story:

• Premier Grounds Contracting Ltd. — 20 appearances, 19 of them in Coquitlam
• Basil Green Landscaping — 17 appearances, spread across Burnaby (7), Richmond (5), and Vancouver (3)
• Beyond Landscaping — 11 appearances, all 11 in North Vancouver
• TerraCrest Landscaping of West Vancouver — 11 appearances, 10 in West Vancouver
• Mission Custom Landscaping — 10 appearances, all in Mission
• Belleview Landscaping — 9 appearances, all in West Vancouver
• Alp Landscaping Services — 9 appearances, all in Coquitlam

Two patterns sit inside that list. Basil Green Landscaping earned its 17 appearances by winning across three different cities — that's genuine multi-market reach. Everyone else on the list built their count by dominating one city across most of its landscaping categories. Beyond Landscaping doesn't compete broadly — it shows up for hedge trimming, garden maintenance, lawn care, lawn maintenance, and more, but only in North Vancouver.

Which cities are locked up, and which are still open?

Take the top business's share of a city's total Map Pack appearances, and the difference between cities changes what you're competing against. West Vancouver's top competitor holds 48% of that city's slots. Coquitlam's top competitor holds 44%. Vancouver and Surrey are the opposite: the top competitor there holds just 12% and 13%.

A business trying to break into West Vancouver's landscaping market is competing against two established names that together hold nine of every ten visible spots. A business trying to break into Vancouver or Surrey is competing against a crowded field where nobody has more than a handful of slots — different problem, different playbook.

Where does the Map Pack not even appear?

Twelve of the 216 tracked searches returned no Map Pack at all. Two patterns explain most of them. Irrigation installation returned no results in four of its 18 cities — Maple Ridge, New Westminster, Port Moody, and Richmond, 22% of that category's coverage. Tree removal returned no results in four cities too — Chilliwack, Richmond, West Vancouver, and White Rock, also 22%.

White Rock is distinct: across the 12 service categories tracked there, four returned no Map Pack — landscaping contractor, sod installation, tree removal, and yard cleanup. That's a third of the categories checked for that city coming back empty.

An empty Map Pack doesn't mean nobody in that city does the work. It means Google hasn't resolved a confident local answer yet — an opening, not a blocker, and a different fight than unseating an entrenched leader.

How many reviews does it take to show up in this market?

Across 604 tracked appearances with review data, the range runs from 1 review to 416, with a median of 41. That's the number that matters: half of every business Google is currently showing across these 216 searches has 41 reviews or fewer.

257 of 604 appearances — 43% — belong to businesses with 50 or more reviews. But 117 appearances, nearly a fifth of the total, belong to businesses with fewer than 20. Review count is not a hard gate in this market the way it might look in a more mature category. Businesses with modest review counts are still showing up, particularly in the wide-open markets like Vancouver and Surrey.

What does this mean if you run a landscaping business here?

Know which fight you're actually in before you spend money on it. A business in West Vancouver or Coquitlam is competing against one or two established names holding roughly half the visible spots. A business in Vancouver, Surrey, or Burnaby is competing in a field where the top name holds well under a third. Don't assume your city looks like the one three towns over — check your own numbers before you commit budget. Rankwise takes one business per city, per category — worth knowing before someone else in your city locks that in.

A modest review count is not automatically disqualifying here. 117 of 604 tracked appearances belong to businesses under 20 reviews. If you're sitting at 15 or 20 reviews, you're not locked out of this market the way you might be in a more saturated category — but you're also not protected by that fact forever.

Irrigation and tree removal searches are the least reliably resolved by Google right now. Four of 18 cities returned nothing for irrigation — Maple Ridge, New Westminster, Port Moody, and Richmond — and four for tree removal — Chilliwack, Richmond, West Vancouver, and White Rock. If your business does that specialty work and your city is one where competitors haven't claimed the top spots yet, that's real ground to move on before someone else does.

White Rock is a market worth a second look. A third of the service categories checked there came back with no Map Pack at all. That's either an underserved market or a market where local businesses haven't optimized their Google presence for those specific searches — either way, it's not fully spoken for.

If your business appears in only one or two of these searches, you're not unusual — you're the majority. 251 businesses were observed and only seven appeared more than eight times. Most competitors in this market hold ground in exactly one city, sometimes for exactly one service type. Showing up consistently across multiple categories in your own city is the differentiator, not a nice-to-have.

What doesn't this study prove?

This is one snapshot from one location — Coquitlam, BC, July 9, 2026. Your results may differ: a business searching from Surrey or Vancouver could see a different order or different businesses entirely. This data has no click-through numbers, no call volume, and no way to connect a Map Pack position to actual jobs booked. The Unknown/Other city-parsing gap (noted above) means some of the concentration numbers could shift slightly if those addresses were resolved. Finally, 251 businesses across 216 searches is a real dataset, but it's a snapshot of one moment in a market that moves — not a trend line.

What does Rankwise track from here?

This dataset is scheduled to be re-pulled quarterly; this is the first landscaper pull. Other trades get the same treatment on their own schedule. The next quarterly pull would show whether Coquitlam's concentration holds, whether the empty irrigation and tree removal results in some cities get filled in, and whether White Rock's gaps close. Want to see how your own city and service category actually show up on Google? Book a 15-minute call at rankwise.ca/audit — we take one business per city, per service category, so on the call we'll walk through where you stand, what's realistic to change, and whether we're the right team to help. If we're not the right team, we'll say so.

References

1. Google search results (Map Pack), collected via SerpAPI, search location Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, generated 2026-07-09.
2. Rankwise Supabase serp_snapshots — 216 keyword records, 251 unique competitor businesses, keyword set: landscaper.
3. City distribution and review-count figures drawn directly from market-study-inputs.md, "City distribution of Map Pack results" and "Review landscape" sections.
4. Concentration percentages (top competitor share of a city's appearances) are calculated by Rankwise from the appearance counts published in this study's source data — method noted inline where used.