Lawn Route Capacity Calculator

Your numbers

Average minutes mowing one lawnGate to gate, averaged across your route. Mow, edge, blow, done.

Average minutes driving between lawnsDoor to door, averaged across your route. Be honest, include loading up.

Productive hours per dayI plan on 6. That leaves room for sick days, rain and repairs. 8 is flat out.

Mowing cycleMost accounts get mowed weekly. Switch to biweekly if that's your route.

Days you mow per week5 = Mon to Fri, no weekends.

People on the crewA second person takes about a third off each lawn, not half.

Accounts you have right nowSo the app can show how full you are.

What that means

45

weekly accounts you can hold at your current hours. That's your ceiling.

67% full right now. Over 90% and you have no slack for rain or a sick day.

40

minutes per lawn, mowing plus travel

9

lawns a day, whole lawns only

15

spare accounts you can still take on

45

lawns a week

Room to grow. Keep quoting.

Where it starts to hurt

Your ceiling at your hours45
Comfortable limit for your crew size
Solo operators start struggling past 100 biweekly accounts. That's about 50 weekly ones.50
Hard limit, working weekends and holidays
You can push here. I don't recommend it. This is how you end up hating the job.60

Don't know your times?

Put the free MyCarTracks app on your phone. It runs in the background and at the end of the day gives you a list of arrival and departure times at every stop. Run it for two weeks, then average your numbers. Arrival to departure is your mow time. Departure to the next arrival is your travel time.

Know your numbers, now check your prices

The other free calculator tells you what to charge for a lawn, and what you're really earning an hour on the ones you already mow.

Try the price calculator

Full, or getting there?

Raise prices, sell some off, or hire. I've done all three. The free group has the templates and the training, and a few thousand lawn care owners working the same numbers.

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