Fence Contractor Video Statistics

Key takeaways

1. Fence businesses posted 20.1% of YouTube’s 472 most-viewed fence installation, vinyl fence and fence building videos and drew 17.6% of their views; one Ohio installer, United Fencing, holds 46.9% of that (its 70.5 million-view chain-link video alone is 8.0% of all views), and without its videos fence businesses drew 10.2% (our read, Nov 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
2. Media, viral and ‘satisfying’ channels drew 39.2% of those views and DIY, homestead and small-farm channels 26.1%; videos of 60 seconds or less were 26.7% of the videos and drew 56.4% of the views. (Mark Studios) See details
3. U.S. employers had 24,480 fence erectors on payroll in May 2025 at a median wage of $47,980, and BLS estimates 21.0% of the occupation is self-employed, against 5.8% of all workers. (BLS) See details
4. Contractors that call themselves fence construction contractors reported $14.1 billion ($14,143,403,000) in receipts in the 2022 Economic Census, and new fence construction brought the shared industry code 238990 $10.9 billion ($10,947,778,000). (U.S. Census Bureau) See details
5. Fencing and landscaping work caused 28% of the 2024 U.S. underground utility damages where nobody called 811 first, the largest share of any work type. (Common Ground Alliance) See details
6. Washington had 238 active fencing-specialty contractor registrations in November 2026, and CSLB’s own list of currently renewed California licences held 1,819 with the C-13 Fencing classification (our counts). (Mark Studios) See details
7. Superior Fence & Rail, the largest of the three fence franchisors whose disclosure documents we found, had 311 outlets at the end of fiscal 2025, and 93 of its franchisees reported average gross revenue of $3,011,403, in its own disclosure document. (Superior Fence & Rail) See details
8. No study we found measures how much a fence adds to a home’s value: the 50% to 70% return figures trace to lead-marketplace pages, and Angi’s own article went from a return of about 50% in 2024 to a 30% to 70% rise in home value, around 50% on average, in 2026. (Mark Studios) See details

Who makes the most-viewed fence videos on YouTube?

Fence contractors and fence businesses posted 20.1% of the most-viewed fence videos on YouTube on November 5, 2026 and drew 17.6% of their views (our count). We read YouTube's own view-sorted search results, the top 200 for each of 'fence installation', 'vinyl fence' and 'fence building', through the YouTube Data API, with no country filter. The three lists held 472 unique videos from 318 channels with 877.3 million lifetime views, and the median video had 455,434 views (our count). We sorted all 318 channels by hand from their own titles, descriptions and video text. A fence business here is any channel whose own text names fence installation or repair as a service or trade it offers, anywhere in the world; 33 channels qualified.

One video carries much of that share. The most-viewed video in the sample is a 112-second install of a black chain-link fence with privacy slats by United Fencing, a fence installer and farm-supply store in Apple Creek, Ohio. It had 70.5 million views, 8.0% of all views in the sample, and ranked first in both the 'fence installation' and 'vinyl fence' lists. Without United Fencing, fence businesses drew 10.2% of the remaining views (our calculation). SWI Fence, a fence-building crew whose video descriptions pitch its own franchise, posted 46 of the 472 videos, more than any other channel.

Fence businesses that also run their channels for a following, with franchise pitches, product shops, coaching for other fence companies or gaming content, are 9 channels that posted 62 videos and drew 7.2% of all views. The other 24 fence businesses, whose channels show their work to customers, posted 33 videos and drew 10.4% of the views, most of it United Fencing's (our count).

How much of that reach comes from U.S. fence contractors?

Fence businesses that name a U.S. place on their channel or in their video text posted 5.3% of the 472 videos on November 5, 2026, from 18 channels, and drew 9.3% of the views; without United Fencing they drew 1.2% of the remaining views (our count). Counting also fence businesses whose channel country setting is the United States, U.S. fence businesses posted 18.2% of the videos and drew 16.4% of the views. Of the 33 fence businesses in the sample, 2 named Florida: Elite Fence and Outdoor of Tampa Bay and FenceForFlorida, with one video each (our count).

Fence business channels are small. The median one behind the sample had 2,730 subscribers, against 76,300 for DIY, homeowner and homestead channels and 67,200 for media and viral channels (our count from channels.list on the same day). Their videos are less often short: fence businesses' videos ran 60 seconds or less 22.1% of the time, against 26.7% for the whole sample.

Which kinds of channels drew the views on the most-viewed fence videos?

Media, viral, compilation and 'satisfying' channels drew the largest share of views in the November 5, 2026 sample, 39.2%, from 12.9% of the videos (our count). Their median video had 1,275,560 views, against 304,116 for fence businesses' videos. The table gives each class's share of the 472 videos and of their 877.3 million views.

Farm fencing is a large part of fence video on YouTube, though few fence businesses film it. Videos from channels whose fencing is farm, ranch or livestock fencing, or whose titles name barbed wire, high-tensile, T-posts, field or woven wire, electric fence or livestock, were 13.1% of the sample and drew 22.2% of the views (our count). Only one of the 33 fence businesses, United Fencing, named agricultural fencing as part of its work. One video came from an educator (an outdoors-skills school), and none from a trade body or government channel. The views are concentrated: the 10 most-viewed channels drew 39.7% of all views, and 24 of the 318 channels had 1 million or more subscribers.

Does the mix change with the search words?

Yes. In the 'vinyl fence' list on November 5, 2026, fence businesses drew 47.8% of the views, most of it from United Fencing's chain-link video, which ranked first there too; in 'fence installation' they drew 26.3%, and in 'fence building' only 10.0%, where media and viral channels drew 46.0% (our count). 'Fence building' is the list of short viral clips: its median video had 1,007,787 views and videos of 60 seconds or less drew 60.0% of its views. In the 'vinyl fence' list the median video had 190,329 views and short videos drew 18.4%. 106 of the 472 videos appeared in two or more of the three lists.

How long and how new are the most-viewed fence videos?

Videos of 60 seconds or less were 26.7% of the November 5, 2026 sample and drew 56.4% of its views (our count). The median short video had 914,714.5 views, against 375,230 for longer videos. Videos of 3 to 10 minutes were 29.9% of the sample but drew 9.4% of the views. The median video ran 277.5 seconds. 35.8% of the videos were published in 2024 or later, and they drew 66.4% of the views; 58 were published in the 365 days before the read. The median video had 9.1 likes per 1,000 views. Channels whose country setting is the United States posted 59.7% of the videos and drew 57.0% of the views.

What do the most-viewed fence videos show?

Almost half are how-to videos: 48.1% of the 472 titles in the November 5, 2026 sample say DIY, 'how to', tutorial or step-by-step, and they drew 31.6% of the views (our count from the titles). The table gives the share of titles that name each material or topic. Chain link punches above its count: 3.6% of titles drew 11.1% of the views. Vinyl is the reverse: 24.2% of titles mention vinyl or PVC, but they drew only 4.7% of the views; that count includes 19 vinyl siding, railing, lattice or skirting videos the 'vinyl fence' search returned.

Few titles name the other materials: aluminum appears in 4, composite or WPC in 10 and wrought iron, ornamental or steel in 5. Formats common in contractor marketing are nearly absent from the titles: none says time-lapse or drone, 1 says pool and 7 say before-and-after or transformation. A dollar amount, cost, price, budget or saving money appears in the title or description of 20.8% of the videos (our count).

No video in the sample carried YouTube's altered or synthetic content disclosure field, while 5 channels with 7 of the videos say in their own text that their videos, visuals or narration are AI-generated. Uploaders marked 1 video, a kids' channel's construction episode, as made for kids (status read through the API on November 5, 2026).

Do fence makers, franchisors and the trade body post on YouTube?

Seldom. The 12 fence-industry organisation channels we read posted 134 videos in the year to November 5, 2026, with a median of 281.5 views each, and 7 of the 12 posted nothing in that year (our count from the YouTube Data API). Most of the 134 videos came from CertainTeed and Trex, whose channels cover all their products: CertainTeed posted 83 videos and Trex 25, and none of those titles mention fencing.

The American Fence Association's channel posted 19 videos, 16 of them about fencing or its FENCETECH show, and 52.6% ran 60 seconds or less. Neither fence franchisor read posted a video in the year: Superior Fence & Rail's site links the channel of its North Florida location, last updated in 2019, and Mossy Oak Fence's channel holds one 2009 TV commercial; together the two channels had 150 subscribers. Barrette Outdoor Living last posted in June 2024 and Jewett-Cameron in August 2025. Only 2 of the 12 organisation channels, Master Halco and Ameristar, had any video among the 472 most-viewed fence videos, one each. SWI Fence's own channel had 208,000 subscribers, more than three times the 59,180 that the 12 organisation channels had combined (our count from channels.list on November 5, 2026).

How many fence company location pages show a video?

In our read of 123 U.S. location pages of four fence companies on November 5, 2026, 32.5% showed a video, and every one of them belonged to a single brand (our count). All 100.0% of the Superior Fence & Rail pages played the same national brand video, a self-hosted file with player controls: 32.5% of all pages embedded a player a visitor can start and 32.5% played a self-hosted video file. The Long Fence, Ergeon and Bravo Fence pages showed none (0.0%, 0.0% and 0.0%). No page embedded a YouTube video (0.0%) or played a muted background loop (0.0%). Giving each brand equal weight, the share showing video was 25.0% (our calculation). On the brands' national homepages, 2 of 4 showed a video, Superior's player and a short looping animation on Ergeon's (our count).

Links out to YouTube followed the same line: 32.5% of pages linked to YouTube, all of them Superior pages linking to the brand's channel (our count). The count covers what the pages embed or link to, not what the companies post on YouTube or social platforms.

This is a read of a few brands' templates, not of the many local fence contractors that have no page per location. We drew up to 40 pages per brand at random (seed 20261105) from the location pages each brand's sitemap listed that day: Superior Fence & Rail, a fence franchisor, listed 146 territory pages; Long Fence, a multi-branch installer around Maryland and Virginia, listed 50 branch and area pages; Ergeon, an online fence installation company that quotes remotely and sells into the market, listed 98 county service-area pages; and Bravo Fence, a Tampa Bay installer, listed 3 Florida city pages, all read. The pages were in 29 states. Of the other fence brands and domains we checked, Hercules Fence disallows Anthropic's crawler in robots.txt and 6 had no set of installation location pages to sample: the Mossy Oak Fence Company and Fence Pros domains we tried were parked, and America's Fence Store, Hoover Fence, Viking Fence and Freedom Fence are supply or product stores.

What does each fence company's location page show?

Within a brand, the template decides almost every feature, so the brand table says more than the pooled shares. Shares are of each brand's pages read on November 5, 2026 (our count); Bravo Fence has only three pages, so its shares move in steps of a third.

Photos of finished work were rare: 2.4% of pages showed a project photo gallery, all three Bravo Fence pages, and 0.8% showed or named before-and-after photos, one Ergeon page (our count). Weighting each brand equally, the gallery share is 25.0%, which only says that one of four brands has galleries. Long Fence shows a carousel of service-category photos and Ergeon a set of fence-style tiles, which we did not count as galleries.

Most pages named the common fence materials in their main text: wood on 82.9%, vinyl on 81.3%, chain-link on 77.2% and aluminum on 62.6%; 61.0% named all four (our count). Long Fence's place pages mostly describe the town and its neighbourhoods, which is why its share is low.

How do fence company location pages take estimate requests?

Every page read offered a quote or estimate request: 100.0% of the 123 pages, and 99.2% used the words free estimate or free quote (our count). 99.2% carried an estimate or contact form with three or more fields on the page itself; every Long Fence page loads Gravity Forms. 0.0% loaded a named online booking or scheduling tool such as Calendly, Jobber, Housecall Pro or ServiceTitan. Every page, 100.0%, mentioned financing or linked to a financing page, mostly from menus and headers, and 97.6% mentioned a warranty or linked to a warranty page (our count).

97.6% of pages showed customer reviews, ratings or testimonials, and 65.0% carried a review widget or review markup, every Superior and Ergeon page (our count).

Do fence company location pages mention pool fences, permits or licences?

Pool barriers were mostly one brand's template: 28.5% of pages mentioned pool fences or pool barriers in their main text, and most of those were Ergeon pages, whose template says that "pool code can add time" to a job (our count). Superior lists Pool Fencing in a menu on every page but named pool fences in the body of only two. Weighting brands equally, the share is 29.6% (our calculation). 33.3% mentioned permits, codes, zoning or setbacks, nearly all of them Ergeon pages, which carry a "Permits & Licenses" block, and 4.9% mentioned an HOA or homeowners association (our count).

39.8% of pages said the company is licensed, insured or bonded in the main text (our count). Licence numbers sit mostly in headers and footers: every Long Fence page prints a footer line of state licence numbers, Ergeon's footer lists its licences by state, and some Superior territory pages print a state licence number in the header. We recorded only whether a number appears, not the number, and a printed number says nothing about any company's licence status.

What do Florida fence company location pages show?

11 of the 123 pages were Florida pages: Bravo Fence's three Tampa Bay pages, four Ergeon county pages and four Superior territory pages; Long Fence has no Florida page (our count). 5 of the 11 mentioned pool fences or pool barriers, against 30 of the 112 pages in other states, so Florida pages named pool barriers somewhat more often in this small sample. 5 of the 11 mentioned permits or HOAs, and 4 showed a video, all of them Superior pages (our count). Florida's pool-barrier rules are set out elsewhere on this page; no Florida page read cited the statute.

What are the limits of this count?

• It is a read of four companies' templated pages, not of the many small local fence contractors with no page per location. Pooled shares mostly say which of four templates carry a feature; read the brand rows.
• The page types differ: franchise territory pages, branch and area pages, an online installer's county pages and a local installer's city pages. Ergeon sells fence installation online and is itself a market seller. Bravo Fence contributes three pages.
• Each page was read once, on November 5, 2026, in a headless browser; pages change. A listed page is not proof of an office in that place.
• Flags are rule matches on the rendered page. The pool, permit, HOA, licensed and material flags read the main text without menus, link labels or customer reviews; financing and warranty include menus. A hand-check of 30 random pages agreed with the rules on 100.0% of flag values after two rule fixes (photo-credit text and review text) (our calculation). The per-page flags are published as location-pages.csv.

How many licensed fence contractors does California have?

California's Contractors State License Board (CSLB) counted 1,567 active licences holding the C-13 (Fencing) classification in 2019 (CSLB 2019 report), up from 1,556 in 2018 (CSLB 2018 report), a rise of 11 (our calculation). These are the latest C-13 counts CSLB has printed: its later annual reports list only the ten largest classifications, and fencing is not one of them. One licence can hold several classifications, so the figure counts active licences that hold C-13, not firms that only build fences; a general building contractor that also puts up fences is not in it. CSLB's public data portal still offers a download of currently renewed licences by classification. On November 5, 2026, its C-13 list held 1,819 licences, every one marked Clear, and 59.8% of them held no other classification (our count). The list and the 2019 report table are built differently, so the difference between the two counts is not a growth rate.

Fencing is a mid-sized specialty in California. C-13 ranked 24th of the state's 44 contractor classifications by active licences in 2019 (our ranking of CSLB's table). The B (General Building) classification was held by 102,135 active licences that year (CSLB), or 65.2 for every active C-13 licence (our calculation). California had 231,260 active contractor licences of all kinds in 2019 (CSLB).

How many California fence contractors declared no employees?

In 2019, 43% of active California C-13 (Fencing) licence classifications had a workers' compensation exemption on file (CSLB 2019 report). A licensee files the exemption by declaring that it has no employees. That was 676 fencing licences, against 891 with a workers' compensation policy (CSLB). The share was 44% in 2018 (CSLB 2018 report). Both counts come from CSLB's own table of active licence classifications by workers' compensation status, which it stopped printing after 2019.

How many people take California's fencing contractor exam?

228 candidates sat California's C-13 (Fencing) trade exam in fiscal year 2022/23, and 39% of them passed (CSLB Sunset Review Report 2023). The counts are exam sittings in each July-to-June fiscal year, first-time and repeat takers together, so a candidate who fails and retakes is counted twice. They are not new licences.

Exam sittings rose 171% from FY 2014-15 to FY 2022-23 (our calculation from CSLB counts). Averaged over four years, 208 candidates a year sat the exam from FY 2019-20 to FY 2022-23, against 142 a year from FY 2014-15 to FY 2017-18 (our calculation); FY 2018-19 is in neither report. Pass rates moved around: 38% of candidates passed in FY 2017-18, with 51% of first-time takers passing (CSLB Sunset Review Report 2018), and the rate peaked at 53% in FY 2020/21 (CSLB Sunset Review Report 2023).

How many fence contractors are registered in Washington?

Washington had 238 active construction contractor registrations listing fencing as their specialty on November 5, 2026 (our count of the Washington Department of Labor & Industries registration file on data.wa.gov). That is 0.3% of the 68,402 active construction contractor registrations in the state (our calculation). Fencing ranked 18th among the specialty categories, with general contractors left out (our ranking). The count understates fence work: 76.1% of active Washington contractors register as general contractors (our calculation), and a general contractor that builds fences is not counted as a fencing specialist. The file records one specialty per registration.

The file holds 543 fencing-specialty registrations of any status, of which 43.8% are active and 221 have expired (our count); 39 are suspended and 17 are marked out of business. Of the active fencing specialists, 84.5% have a Washington mailing address; Oregon, with 15, leads the rest (our count). Fence firms are more often sole individuals than contractors overall: 59.2% of active fencing registrations are limited liability companies and 18.5% individuals, against 63.9% and 13.5% of all contractors, and corporations hold 19.7% against 21.7% (our calculation).

Which Washington counties have the most fence contractors?

King County, with 34 active fencing-specialty registrations, followed by Snohomish (27) and Clark (23) (our count, assigning each mailing-address ZIP code to the county that holds most of its land in the Census 2020 ZIP-to-county file). Together the three counties hold 43.8% of the 192 active fencing specialists with a Washington ZIP (our calculation). Relative to all contractors, Yakima County leads among counties with at least 1,000 active registrations, at 6.0 fencing specialists per 1,000 registrations; Benton County is lowest at 1.3 (our calculation). The county counts are small, so one or two firms move these rates. Counts by county are in our CSV; the file lists no licensee names.

Which other states publish a count of fence contractors?

None that could be read for this page in November 2026. Arizona's Registrar of Contractors site returned a bot challenge, Nevada's contractor board bars AI agents in its robots.txt, and Utah's licensing division refused the request, so their fencing classifications could not be counted. Florida has no state fence licence, and Palm Beach County's contractor certification pages publish no count of certified fence contractors (a Martin County count was not found); Sunshine 811, Florida's locate-request center, bars AI agents, so its ticket counts are not used here.

How many fence erectors are there, and what do they earn?

U.S. employers counted 24,480 wage-and-salary fence erectors (SOC 47-4031) in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). Their mean annual wage was $50,530 (BLS OEWS) and the median was $47,980 (BLS OEWS). The lowest-paid tenth earned less than $35,810 (BLS OEWS) and the highest-paid tenth more than $70,010 (BLS OEWS). These figures come from the OEWS employer survey, so they leave out self-employed installers and fence company owners. BLS says OEWS estimates are not built for year-over-year comparison.

Counting every class of worker, BLS's Employment Projections program put the occupation at 30.6 thousand jobs in 2025 (BLS Employment Projections). The household survey (CPS) counted 42 thousand employed people whose main job was fence erector in 2025, too few for BLS to publish their sex, race or ethnicity shares (BLS CPS Table 11). The three counts differ because each survey counts a different population: payroll jobs, all jobs, and people.

How many fence erectors work in Florida and its southeast metros?

Florida employers counted 2,020 wage-and-salary fence erectors in May 2025, the second-largest published state count after California's 3,150 (BLS OEWS). Florida's location quotient for the occupation was 1.29, so fence erectors made up a larger share of jobs there than nationally (BLS OEWS). Florida held 8.3% of the nation's payroll fence erectors (our calculation). BLS withheld the estimates for several states, so an unpublished state could be larger.

Florida's mean and median wages for fence erectors were below the national figures in May 2025; the median was 5.1% lower (our calculation). In both southeast Florida metro areas the median was above the national median. BLS did not publish an employment count for the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro, and the Port St. Lucie figures rest on about 40 jobs, so both metro wages carry wide error.

Which businesses employ fence erectors?

Most fence erectors work for specialty trade contractors. In May 2025, 19,730 of the 24,480 wage-and-salary fence erectors worked in NAICS 2389 Other specialty trade contractors, the industry group that holds 238990, where fence contractors file (BLS OEWS), or 80.6% (our calculation). Building material and supplies dealers, such as home centers and lumber yards that sell installed fence, employed 980 (BLS OEWS). OEWS does not publish a 238990-only figure for this occupation.

How many fence erectors are self-employed, and how fast is the job growing?

BLS estimates that 21.0% of fence erectors were self-employed in 2025 (BLS Employment Projections), against 5.8% of all U.S. workers (BLS Employment Projections). That is why payroll surveys such as OEWS and QCEW miss a large part of the trade. BLS projects the occupation to grow 5.6% from 2025 to 2035, to 32.3 thousand jobs (BLS Employment Projections), with about 2.5 thousand openings a year, mostly to replace workers who leave (BLS Employment Projections). BLS lists no formal education requirement and moderate-term on-the-job training for the job.

BLS has no Occupational Outlook Handbook profile for fence erectors: the projections table shows no OOH link for SOC 47-4031. No BLS injury or fatality figure for fence erectors was found in a form this page can cite, so the page shows no injury rate for the trade.

What industry code do fence contractors file under?

Fence contractors have no industry code of their own. The 2022 NAICS manual lists fence installation as an example of 238990 All other specialty trade contractors, beside billboard erection, outdoor swimming pool construction, driveway paving, scaffolding and crane rental with operator (NAICS 2022 manual). Every 238990 count below is shared context: it includes fence contractors, but also those other trades.

How much fence work do contractors sell?

Establishments in 238990 that described themselves as fence construction contractors reported 14,143,403 thousand dollars (about $14.1 billion) in receipts in the 2022 Economic Census (Census Economic Census). In Florida the same group reported 965,333 thousand dollars (Census Economic Census), 6.8% of the U.S. total (our calculation). Swimming pool contractors in the same code reported 19,376,641 thousand dollars (Census Economic Census). The whole 238990 industry reported 82,795,519 thousand dollars in 2022 (Census Economic Census), and its establishments did 7,064,909 thousand dollars of work located in Florida (Census Economic Census).

The Economic Census also counts fence work by product line, whatever kind of contractor sold it. Establishments in 238990 reported these fence receipts in 2022 (U.S. only; Census publishes no state product lines for this industry):

New fence construction was 13.2% of all 238990 receipts (Census Economic Census), and 7,231 establishments, or 17.1% of the industry's establishments, reported it (Census Economic Census). Across every industry, new fence construction brought in 12,397,550 thousand dollars in 2022 (Census Economic Census). Masonry contractors reported 337,152 thousand dollars of it, the most outside 238990 (Census Economic Census); 238990 establishments earned 88.3% of the total (our calculation). Repairs and renovations made up 20.7% of 238990's fence receipts, and new fence construction averaged $1.5 million per reporting establishment (our calculations).

How much fencing do U.S. manufacturers ship?

Ornamental and architectural metal work makers (NAICS 332323) shipped 2,643,645 thousand dollars of steel and aluminum fences, gates, railings and window guards in 2022 (Census Economic Census). Wire product makers (NAICS 332618) shipped 455,615 thousand dollars of steel wire fencing and fence gates (Census Economic Census), and wood product makers (NAICS 321999) shipped 158,794 thousand dollars of assembled wood fence sections (Census Economic Census).

How many businesses share the fence contractors' industry code?

The United States averaged 58,426 private establishments in 238990 in 2025, up from 44,835 in 2019, per BLS QCEW (BLS QCEW). They employed an average of 394,819 people at average annual pay of $74,475 (BLS QCEW). The U.S. count rose 30.3% over those six years (our calculation). Florida had 5,993 establishments in 2025, up from 4,563 in 2019 (BLS QCEW); Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties held 15.4% of them (our calculation). These counts cover only employers in the state unemployment-insurance system, and they include pool builders, pavers and the other trades in the code.

County Business Patterns, a different Census count taken in mid-March, found 42,748 U.S. establishments in 238990 in 2023 (Census CBP), of which 28,627 had fewer than five employees (Census CBP). Florida had 4,497 (Census CBP), Palm Beach County 346 (Census CBP), Broward County 307 (Census CBP) and Martin County 56 (Census CBP).

How many one-person businesses work in this group of trades?

Census counted 605,015 nonemployer businesses, firms with no paid staff, in NAICS 2389 Other specialty trade contractors in the United States in 2024 (Census Nonemployer Statistics). Census publishes nonemployer counts for this group only at the 2389 level, which adds site preparation contractors to 238990, so this is wider shared context than the employer counts above. Florida had 65,364 (Census Nonemployer Statistics), Broward County 6,366 (Census Nonemployer Statistics), Palm Beach County 4,862 (Census Nonemployer Statistics) and Martin County 465 (Census Nonemployer Statistics).

For the same 2389 group in 2023, the year of the latest County Business Patterns, Census counted 591,053 nonemployer businesses in the United States (Census Nonemployer Statistics) and 84,525 employer establishments (Census CBP). In Florida the 2023 counts were 60,613 nonemployers (Census Nonemployer Statistics) and 6,548 employer establishments (Census CBP). That is 7.0 nonemployers for every employer establishment nationally and 9.3 in Florida (our calculations).

Census's Annual Integrated Economic Survey publishes advertising spending by industry for 2024, but its detailed expense tables do not cover the construction sector, so there is no federal figure for what fence contractors spend on advertising.

What do fence product makers tell the SEC about fencing?

Jewett-Cameron, a Nasdaq-listed company whose largest product line is fencing, sold $32,269,615 worth of fencing products in the year to August 31, 2025 (its 10-K), down from $34,209,073 a year earlier and $36,346,257 in fiscal 2023 (its prior 10-K). Fencing was 86% of its Pet, Fencing and Other segment (its 10-K). These are wholesale sales of gate kits, steel posts and cedar fencing to retailers, not installed fences. Total company sales were $41.3 million in fiscal 2025 (Jewett-Cameron 10-K).

• Its wood fencing sales fell 33% in the third quarter of fiscal 2025 against a year earlier, when it could not get enough Western Red Cedar (Jewett-Cameron 10-K).
• Its Lifetime Steel Post displays were in 422 stores (Jewett-Cameron 10-K). Its single largest customer took 39% of total sales and its top ten took 97% (Jewett-Cameron 10-K).
• Tariffs hit fence hardware. The 10-K says the U.S. tariff on steel imports rose to 50% on June 4, 2025, and steel products from China carried 95% until November 9, 2025 and 85% after (Jewett-Cameron 10-K). The segment lost $4,242,719 in fiscal 2025, against $146,375 a year earlier (Jewett-Cameron 10-K).
• It holds 7 U.S. patents on its fencing products, such as the Adjust-A-Gate gate frame for wood, vinyl, chain link and composite fences (Jewett-Cameron 10-K).

The big makers do not report fencing on its own line. UFP Industries estimates it produces about 17% of all wood fencing in the U.S. (UFP Industries 10-K). Its ProWood unit, which sells treated lumber, decking, wood and vinyl fencing and lattice, had net sales of $2,028,949 thousand in fiscal 2025, down from $2,495,493 thousand in 2023 (UFP Industries 10-K). The Home Depot accounted for 17% of UFP's total net sales and Lowe's for 11% (UFP Industries 10-K). Trex sells its Seclusions composite fencing through two specialty distributors, while Trex products overall are stocked in more than 6,700 retail locations (Trex 10-K). Tractor Supply's Livestock, Equine & Agriculture category, which includes fencing next to feed and poultry, was 27% of its net sales in fiscal 2025 (Tractor Supply 10-K). Gibraltar Industries, Pool Corp and SiteOne did not mention fencing in their fiscal 2025 10-Ks, and Westlake mentioned it only as a use for its PVC compounds.

What do fence franchisors disclose about revenue, leads and marketing?

Superior Fence & Rail, the largest of the three fence franchisors filing in Minnesota, reported $310,212,387 in system gross revenues for the year to September 30, 2025, up from $17,127,733 in fiscal 2019 (Superior Fence & Rail 2026 FDD). It had 311 outlets at the end of fiscal 2025 (Superior Fence & Rail FDD), after franchised outlets jumped by 165 in fiscal 2023 alone (Superior FDD). 13 of its franchised outlets were in Florida (Superior FDD). Every figure here is the franchisor's own disclosure, and the documents say no government agency has verified them.

On these figures a fence business answers far more inquiries than it installs: the median franchisee logged 1,910 leads and 376 jobs. A lead is any inquiry by phone, website, social media or referral recorded in the franchisor's software. The company-owned North Florida operation recorded 9,805 leads and 2,200 jobs in the same year (Superior FDD) and gross revenues of $13,081,216 (Superior FDD). The middle third of franchisees spent a median 4.1% of revenue on local advertising in 2024 (Superior FDD).

Franchisees also pay a 1% National Branding & Marketing Fee (Superior FDD) on top of a royalty that starts at 6% of revenue (Superior FDD). Of what that brand fund spent in fiscal 2025, 4.3% went to video and photo production and 50.3% to advertising (Superior FDD). The FDD estimates a new franchise costs $134,400 to $278,800 to open (Superior FDD); these are the franchisor's estimates of a buyer's costs, not prices to homeowners.

We searched the Minnesota Department of Commerce's CARDS franchise database for "fence" on 2026-11-05 and found these three fence franchisors. Mossy Oak Fence Company and Fence Pros had no filings there; private makers such as Barrette Outdoor Living file nothing with the SEC.

How often do public companies' annual reports mention fences?

Almost never by trade name. Only 11 Form 10-K annual reports filed with the SEC from 2001 to 2025 contained "fencing contractor" or "fence contractor" in singular or plural, and none in 2025 (our count). In 17 of those 25 years no 10-K used either phrase (our count). We counted distinct 10-K filings per filing year with the SEC's EDGAR full-text search on 2026-11-05; the counts are filings, not companies, and they leave out every private fence maker, distributor, contractor and franchisor. The yearly counts are in the CSV linked below.

Vinyl fence is the only phrase with a steady run, because siding and building-products makers named it as a product line. Filings naming it peaked at 6 a year in 2007, 2008 and 2014, and only 2 did so in 2025, from Cornerstone Building Brands and UFP Industries (our count). 52 of the 81 filings over 2001-2025 came in 2001-2013 (our count); the most frequent filers, Associated Materials and Ply Gem, stopped filing 10-Ks after their buyouts. The decline tracks who files with the SEC more than how many vinyl fences are sold.

The search is exact and case-insensitive with no stemming, so singular and plural were searched separately and merged. A hit can be any context: "fence installation" also matches a power plant's construction description. Year means filing year, so 2025 counts are mostly fiscal 2024 reports. The number of companies filing 10-Ks also changes over time, so these counts are not shares of all filers.

What does a fence installation cost in 2026?

Angi puts the 2026 national average for a fence installation at $3,278, based on 2,968 verified projects reported by its pros (Angi). Thumbtack says most people pay around $2,717 (Thumbtack), and Fixr models a typical 200-foot cedar picket job with a gate at about $4,500 (Fixr, 2025). Every figure in this section comes from a company that sells homeowner leads to fence contractors or installs fences itself, so each is a seller's estimate, not a government price series. Only Angi and Ergeon say how many jobs stand behind a number.

Angi says labor is 50% of a fence job's total cost (Angi). The ranges overlap but do not match, because each seller draws on different jobs, regions, heights and lengths. HomeAdvisor's cost pages were left out: its robots.txt blocks a named AI crawler.

How do wood, vinyl, chain-link, aluminum and iron fences compare on price?

Chain-link is the cheapest common material in every seller's guide: Angi puts it at $8–$40 per linear foot installed in 2026 (Angi). Aluminum and wrought iron sit at the top. The table sets the per-foot ranges and per-project averages side by side; each row names the seller that published it.

Ergeon is a fence installer, and it is the one seller that publishes the spread of its own jobs: a typical chain-link project it installed in 2026 cost $2,057 and $5,092 (25th to 75th percentile) across 1,408 completed installs in 15 states (Ergeon). Its guides are not internally consistent, though: the chain-link page headlines $32-$71 per foot while quoting $11 to $32 for the same typical jobs, and the wood and vinyl pages each give a second, higher national average further down. Ergeon also prices a standard walk gate on a wood fence at an average of $399 (Ergeon).

What do fences and pool fences cost in Florida?

Angi puts a 2026 fence installation in Orlando at $1,600–$4,250, below New York and Los Angeles (Angi). In Ergeon's own 2026 jobs, a typical chain-link install in Florida ran $37 per foot, tied with Texas and below Maryland and California (Ergeon). Pool barriers, which Florida law requires around residential pools, cost more in total because they enclose a long run:

• HomeGuide puts a pool fence at $10 to $45 per linear foot installed, with a national average of $7,800 for 200 to 300 feet (HomeGuide, 2026).
• Thumbtack says most pool fences cost approximately $2,500 and $10,000, build and materials included (Thumbtack).
• Permits add a small line: Angi gives $20–$60 nationally (Angi), while one Orlando-area fence company quoted by Thumbtack puts local permits at $25-$300 depending on the municipality (Thumbtack).

How long does a fence installation take?

HomeGuide says a fence installation takes 2 to 4 days on average (HomeGuide, 2026), and Angi says professionals can often finish in one to three days (Angi). HomeGuide puts the crew time for a wood picket or privacy fence at 13 – 16 hours per 100 feet (HomeGuide). Angi adds that winter is a slower season for fence contractors and that off-season bookings might bring a discount of 10% to 25% (Angi). None of these sellers publishes the data behind its timing or discount figures.

How many homeowners take on fence projects, and who do they hire?

In 2026, 23% of homeowners upgrading outdoor features took on fences, according to the 2026 U.S. Houzz Outdoor Trends Study (Houzz). Houzz surveyed 1,191 U.S. Houzz users online between April 25 and May 6, 2026, all of them planning, doing or recently finished with an outdoor renovation (Houzz). Houzz sells software and leads to home professionals, and its respondents are its own users, not a random sample of homeowners.

• 71% of these homeowners hired a professional for their outdoor project, up from 65% in 2024 (Houzz).
• 8% hired a fencing specialist, a share Houzz describes as relatively stable since 2024 (Houzz).

Do home buyers and homeowners want fenced yards?

In a 2023 survey for Zillow, 48% of Gen Z adults (aged 18 to 26) said a fenced backyard is a must-have if they bought a home (Zillow). The Harris Poll ran it online from March 16 to 20, 2023, among 2,066 U.S. adults, 306 of them aged 18 to 26. Zillow also says its research finds listings that mention a fenced backyard can sell nearly three days faster than similar homes, without publishing the listing sample or years behind that figure (Zillow). In a May 2024 SurveyMonkey poll of 1,028 U.S. homeowners for Thumbtack, 39% said their dream yard would have a fenced-in space for pets (Thumbtack). Zillow sells advertising to real estate agents and Thumbtack sells leads to contractors; neither survey measured whether a fence raises a sale price.

What do software and ad platforms say about running a fence business?

Jobber, which sells scheduling and quoting software to fence companies, says a typical fence company's profit margin is roughly 25–40% of a project's value and that starting one costs $3,260–6,050+ (Jobber, 2024). Neither figure comes with a sample, a survey or a period: both are rules of thumb in a how-to article. Google lists Fencing services among the U.S. categories that can run Local Services Ads, its pay-per-lead ads that send calls and messages straight to the business (Google). No fence-specific survey of contractors' marketing or video use with a published sample was found for this page: the American Fence Association's site blocks named AI crawlers, and the other fence trade titles checked publish no survey data.

How many U.S. children drown in pools and spas each year?

An average of 376 U.S. children younger than 15 died each year in 2021-2023 in drownings linked to a pool or spa, according to the newest Consumer Product Safety Commission staff report, published in May 2026 (CPSC 2026 report). CPSC counts deaths that reach it through death certificates, medical examiners, news clippings and other reports, so the count is a floor, not a census. The same report estimates 5,900 children under 15 a year were treated in hospital emergency departments for nonfatal pool or spa drowning injuries in 2023-2025 (CPSC 2026 report), down from an estimated 6,300 a year in 2022-2024 (CPSC 2026 report).

• Toddlers carry most of the toll: 77 percent of the reported deaths in 2021-2023 were children younger than 5 (CPSC 2026 report). For that age group, CPSC counted 297 deaths in 2023, up from 285 in 2022 (CPSC 2026 report).
• CPSC sorted 872 reported under-5 pool and spa deaths from 2021-2023 by how they happened (CPSC 2026 report). Most were lapses in supervision and about one in ten involved a barrier that failed or was got around (both shares are on our pool-service statistics page). In 19 percent the records held too little detail to say how the child reached the water (CPSC 2026 report), so no published share of "fence failures" is complete.

Across all ages and all kinds of water, CDC counts an average of 4,083 unintentional drowning deaths a year in 2012-2021 (CDC Drowning Facts) and an average of 8,111 emergency department visits a year for nonfatal drowning (CDC Drowning Facts). CDC's 2024 Vital Signs report found drowning death rates in 2020, 2021 and 2022 were all significantly higher than in 2019, with the highest rates among children aged 1-4 every year (CDC MMWR, 2024). In the same report's national panel survey of October-November 2023, 54.7% of U.S. adults said they had never taken a swimming lesson (CDC MMWR, 2024). The American Academy of Pediatrics counts 981 U.S. children and teens under 20 who died from drowning in 2023 (AAP technical report, 2026). The burden is not shared evenly: in 1999-2010, CDC found swimming-pool drowning rates for Black children and teens aged 5-19 were 5.5 times those of white children the same age (CDC MMWR, 2014).

Florida is one of the worst-hit states. The Florida Department of Health says the state ranks 5th in the nation for drowning deaths, citing CDC data, though its page gives no year (Florida DOH).

Do pool fences actually prevent child drowning?

Yes. The Cochrane review by Thompson and Rivara (published 2000, covering studies to 1998) put the odds of a child drowning or nearly drowning in a fenced pool at 0.27 times the odds in an unfenced pool (Cochrane review). The type of fence matters. A pool with isolation fencing, which closes the pool off from the house on all four sides, carried 0.17 times the drowning odds of a pool fenced on three sides with the house as the fourth (Cochrane review). The often-quoted "83% lower risk" for four-sided fencing is that same odds ratio, read as one minus 0.17. The evidence base is thin and old. Three case-control studies met the review's criteria, and there are no randomized trials (Cochrane review).

• Western Australia, 1988-2000: 68 percent of drownings of children under 5 in private pools happened in pools without four-sided fencing, and the risk with three-sided fencing was 1.78 times the four-sided risk (Pediatrics, 2003).
• Brisbane, 1970s: of 66 pool immersion accidents only one pool had an adequate safety fence, and 76% had no fence or barrier at all (Injury Prevention).
• Arizona, 1995-1999: child fatality review teams judged that supervision and pool fencing could have prevented 90% of backyard-pool drownings of children under 5 (Pediatrics, 2002). That is a review-team judgment, not a measured effect.
• Victoria, Australia: in 65.0% of 80 deaths of children 0-4 in private pools and spas, none of four protections (a compliant barrier, supervision, water familiarisation, early CPR) was known to be present (IJICSP, 2013). In a later Victorian series for 2001-2016, 8 of 23 private-pool cases with a lapse involved an inadequate pool fence and 4 a faulty or open gate (Injury Prevention, 2020).
• U.S. portable pools, 2001-2009: CPSC records held 209 child deaths in portable pools, 73% of them in the child's own yard, and the authors asked industry for affordable isolation fencing for these pools (Pediatrics, 2011).

Reviews keep landing on fencing. A 2010 expert review of 17 housing safety measures found only three with enough evidence to implement, and four-sided isolation pool fencing was one (J Public Health Manag Pract). A 2024 global scoping review of 12 newer studies rated barriers around water as effective and pool-fencing laws as promising (Frontiers in Public Health). CDC's own guidance asks for a four-sided fence at least four feet high that separates the pool from the house, with self-closing and self-latching gates (CDC).

Do pool-fence laws work if nobody inspects the fence?

Not on their own. A Los Angeles County study of 1990-1995 found that local pool-fencing ordinances enacted before 1996 were not linked to fewer child drownings in residential pools (AJPH, 2000). The authors blamed codes that did not require the pool to be isolated from the house, weak enforcement and fences and gates that owners did not keep working. Compliance audits elsewhere tell the same story:

Pool owners are the hardest audience. In a 2011 Queensland survey of 1,263 adults, 58% thought tighter fencing law would cut child drownings, and pool owners were the most likely to doubt it (IJERPH, 2017). A 2026 study of 127 countries found no consistent link between having drowning laws on the books and lower drowning death rates, although public-pool fencing looked more protective where institutions were strong enough to enforce it (PLOS Global Public Health).

What would universal pool fencing cost and save?

A 2026 Texas cost-benefit model estimates that fencing every Texas pool home with children aged 1-9 would prevent 174 of the state's 264 child drownings and near-drownings a year (Injury Epidemiology, 2026). It assumes fences are 76% effective and that 38% of those homes already have a working fence. It prices the average pool fence at $3,343, an estimate from industry experts rather than a survey, and puts each drowning at $337,435 in medical and lifetime costs (Injury Epidemiology, 2026). With 7% of Texas households owning a pool, the model needs 98,905 new fences and shows a 10-year net benefit of $122,728,793 (Injury Epidemiology, 2026). At national scale, CDC researchers estimate that isolation pool fencing plus life jackets while boating could prevent 348 U.S. drowning deaths and US$4.5 billion in costs a year. The abstract does not split that total between fences and life jackets (Injury Prevention, 2026).

How often do fence crews hit buried utility lines?

Often enough that the utility industry singles them out. In the Common Ground Alliance's 2024 damage data, fencing and landscaping work caused 28% of the underground-utility damages where nobody called 811 before digging. That was the largest share of any type of work, ahead of construction and development at 24% (CGA DIRT 2024). CGA is an association of utilities, excavators, locators and 811 centers. Its DIRT data come from voluntary reports from the U.S. and Canada, and it groups fencing with landscaping.

• Failing to notify 811 was the top cause of damage in 2024 and has been every year (CGA DIRT 2024). Notification failures were behind 26% of 2024 damages with a known cause (CGA DIRT 2024), and 'no locate request' was behind 25% of 2022 damages. CGA's 2022 report said these damages concentrate in private-property work like landscaping and fencing (CGA DIRT 2022).
• CGA counted 196,977 unique reported damages in 2024 (CGA DIRT 2024), up from 189,549 in 2023 (CGA DIRT 2023).
• Locate requests do not always come back on time. At eight 811 centers, excavators could not start work as scheduled an average of 38% of the time because responses were incomplete (CGA DIRT 2024). CGA suggests this unpredictability may push some crews to skip the call.

What does Florida law require of a fence that serves as a pool barrier?

Florida's Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act (Fla. Stat. ch. 515) sets the rules in five short subsections of s. 515.29, unchanged since 2000. Under s. 515.29(1)(b) a pool barrier may have no gap, opening, indentation, protrusion or structural part that would let a young child crawl under, squeeze through or climb over it (Fla. Stat. 515.29). The statute gives no inch figures for those gaps; the federal guideline below does.

• Placement: under s. 515.29(1)(c) the barrier goes around the pool perimeter and must be separate from the yard fence, unless that stretch of yard fence sits on the pool perimeter and meets the barrier rules itself (Fla. Stat. 515.29).
• Distance from the water: s. 515.29(1)(d) requires the barrier to stand "sufficiently away from the water's edge" that a child who gets through cannot fall straight in. It states no distance (Fla. Stat. 515.29).
• Gates: s. 515.29(3) requires pool gates to open outward, away from the pool, to self-close and self-latch, with the release on the pool side where a young child cannot reach it over the top or through a gap (Fla. Stat. 515.29).
• House walls: under s. 515.29(4) a wall of the home can be part of the barrier only if no door or window in it opens onto the pool (Fla. Stat. 515.29).
• Climbing aids: s. 515.29(5) bars siting a barrier where a permanent structure, equipment or similar object could be used to climb it (Fla. Stat. 515.29).

Who and what does chapter 515 cover?

The act protects a "young child", defined as anyone under the age of 6 years (Fla. Stat. 515.25), and a "medically frail elderly person", someone at least 65 years old with a condition affecting balance, vision or judgment (Fla. Stat. 515.25). It covers pools at detached one- and two-family homes and one-family townhouses not more than three stories high (Fla. Stat. 515.25). A "barrier" under s. 515.25(2) is a fence, a dwelling wall or a nondwelling wall, or any mix of them, that completely surrounds the pool (Fla. Stat. 515.25). An approved safety cover must meet ASTM F1346-91 (Fla. Stat. 515.25).

Section 515.37 lists the exemptions: public pools, farm water structures, covered portable spas and small motorless "kiddie pools" (Fla. Stat. 515.37). Under s. 515.37(4), a city or county with its own pool ordinance that is equal to or stricter than the act is exempt from it, so local barrier rules can go further than the statute (Fla. Stat. 515.37).

What dimensions does CPSC give for a pool fence?

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Safety Barrier Guidelines for Residential Pools (Publication 362, August 2012 edition) give the figures most fence installers build to. They are guidance, not a federal rule, and they track the barrier section of the model building codes. The top of the barrier should be at least 48 inches above grade on the outside, and CPSC notes that some states, counties and cities require 60 inches (CPSC Pub. 362). Its homeowner advice says fences should be at least 4 feet high, and 5 feet or higher is preferable (CPSC Pub. 362).

The International Swimming Pool and Spa Code and the Florida Building Code pool barrier sections are published on codes.iccsafe.org, which renders only with JavaScript, and on UpCodes, whose robots.txt bars AI agents. We did not quote them.

What do Palm Beach and Martin counties require for a fence?

Palm Beach County requires a county certificate of competency to advertise, bid or contract fence work. The rule comes from Special Act chapter 67-1876 of the Laws of Florida, and Fence is one of the county's listed specialty trades (Palm Beach County CILB, Rev. 7/1/25). Category 6 covers wood, pre-cast concrete and prefabricated fences, childproof pool barrier fences, mechanical pool covers and gates. Any electrical work must go to a certified electrical contractor (Palm Beach County CILB).

Martin County issues routine fence permits against a contractor's affidavit, which replaces a zoning review. The installer certifies that the fence is a maximum of 6 feet high on the property line (Martin County fence affidavit, Rev. 7-26) and is not within 25 feet of a navigable waterway, apart from side-line fencing perpendicular to the shore or fencing on a seawall (Martin County). The affidavit cannot be used for a pool barrier: under item 8, the county must inspect fences used as pool barriers (Martin County). The permit checklist is keyed to the Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023) (Martin County fence checklist).

We did not quote unincorporated Palm Beach County's zoning fence-height limits. The county's Unified Land Development Code fence section was not at a readable public URL on November 5, 2026, and third-party summaries do not count as sources. City codes hosted on Municode (library.municode.com), American Legal (codelibrary.amlegal.com), the City of Stuart site and Broward County's site were skipped because their robots.txt files bar ClaudeBot.

Do fence installers in Florida have to call 811 before digging post holes?

Yes. Florida's Underground Facility Damage Prevention and Safety Act requires an excavator to notify the one-call system (Sunshine 811) not less than 2 full business days before excavating on land (Fla. Stat. 556.105). The statute does not name fences. Its definition of excavation in s. 556.102(6) covers any manmade cut or cavity intended to penetrate or disturb the earth's surface, which takes in post holes (Fla. Stat. 556.102). Utility operators must then mark buried lines to within 24 inches either side, also within 2 full business days (Fla. Stat. 556.105). The statute calls that band, 24 inches from either side of a marked line, the tolerance zone, where digging calls for added care such as hand digging (Fla. Stat. 556.102).

Skipping the notice is a noncriminal infraction carrying a civil penalty of $500 plus court costs per infraction (Fla. Stat. 556.107). The penalty is $2,500 where the line carries federally regulated hazardous materials (Fla. Stat. 556.107). A single-family homeowner digging on their own lot is exempt only down to a depth of 10 inches (Fla. Stat. 556.108). That is shallower than a fence post hole, and the exemption does not cover a hired fence contractor.

Which states license fence contractors?

As of November 2026, at least four states name fencing as its own licence or registration class in their rules: California (C-13), Arizona (R-14 and C-14), Nevada (C-25) and Washington (specialty 19). Utah folds fences into its S330 landscaping and recreation licence. Oregon and Louisiana license fence work under their general construction licences, above set dollar thresholds. Florida has no state fence licence and leaves it to counties. Each row below quotes the state's own rule or agency page.

What does California's C-13 fencing licence involve?

California's Contractors State License Board defines the C-13 Fencing classification in Cal. Code Regs. tit. 16, sec. 832.13 (CSLB). The trade exam, under the study guide for exams on or after October 1, 2023, gives about 50% of its weight to fence, gate and rail installation and repair (CSLB C-13 study guide). Preparation and post installation, which includes layout, post-hole sizing and footings, is about 18% (CSLB). Planning and estimating is about 16%, and safety another 16% (CSLB). CSLB says the percentages are approximate.

Small jobs are exempt. Since January 1, 2025, an unlicensed person may take projects up to $1,000, counting labor, materials and all other costs, if they hire no workers and need no building permit. The limit was $500 before AB 2622 (CSLB). CSLB lists penalties for unlicensed contracting that include administrative fines of up to $15,000 and up to six months in jail (CSLB).

How does Florida license fence contractors?

Florida's contracting law (Fla. Stat. ch. 489) has no state-certified fence category. Section 489.117(4) bars cities and counties from licensing job scopes outside the state contractor categories. One clause lets a local government keep a fence installation and erection licence it imposed before January 1, 2021 (Fla. Stat. 489.117). The same subsection lists canvas awning and ornamental iron installation among the scopes no local government may license (Fla. Stat. 489.117). In practice a fence contractor in Palm Beach County holds the county's Fence certificate of competency, described in the permit rules section above. Broward County's Central Examining Board was not checked because broward.org's robots.txt bars ClaudeBot.

We did not find a primary Texas page stating that Texas has no fence licence, so the table leaves Texas out.

What do the popular fence numbers really say?

Four fence numbers are repeated widely online, and none of them comes from a study of fences: no survey, appraisal study or sales analysis that measured what a fence adds to a home turned up, and no field study of how long installed vinyl, wood or chain-link fences last. Each claim below gives the number as repeated, where it came from and what to use instead. We ran exact-phrase searches on each figure and its older wordings, read archived editions in the Internet Archive and checked the reports the repeaters point to.

"A fence returns 50% to 70% of its cost" (or "adds 30% to 70% to home value")

The claim as repeated. Angi, a lead marketplace that sells fence leads, said in its December 17, 2024 article that the average return on a fence installation is about 50% (Angi, 2025 capture). Its July 2026 update says a fence can "increase your home's value by anywhere from 30% to 70%, or around 50% on average" (Angi). Read literally, that is a share of the home's value, while the headline is a share of the fence's cost. Redfin repeats the range as 30% and 70% of the installation cost and credits Angi (Redfin). HomeGuide, a lead directory, prints a typical ROI of 50% to 70% (HomeGuide). On the same page it says a fence raises property value by 2% to 5% (HomeGuide). On a $400,000 home, the page’s own example, that would be close to or above the top of its own installation-cost range. Opendoor gives an average ROI of 50–65% (Opendoor). Its table lists a wood privacy fence at 60% recovered and credits HomeLight, Remodeling magazine's Cost vs. Value Report and HGTV for every row (Opendoor). Fence sellers use the same figures. Long Fence, a contractor, says a buyer might see 70% of the investment back (Long Fence). Superior Fence & Rail, a franchisor, says "many experts agree" on around 50% of the installation cost (Superior Fence & Rail).

Where it came from. We found no original. The reports the repeaters point to do not price a fence. The National Association of REALTORS' 2022 Remodeling Impact Report priced 19 remodeling and replacement projects, using cost estimates from remodelers and resale-value estimates from agents (NAR, 2022). Its exterior list runs from roofing and a garage door at 100% down to front doors, with no fence (NAR, 2022). NAR's outdoor editions, made with landscaping firms, priced 13 outdoor projects in 2018 (NAR, 2018). The 2023 edition priced 11, led by lawn care at 217%, with no fence in either edition (NAR, 2023) (NAR, 2023). HomeLight's fence article cites only an agent estimate for a landscaping upgrade, 212% of cost recovered in spring 2023, and then says landscaping includes fencing (HomeLight). Remodeling magazine's Cost vs. Value site blocked our scripted reads. No edition we could read in press coverage lists a fence. The only figure from someone who values homes is an appraiser's opinion. KW Appraisal Group, a New York firm, says a fence returns 30-40% of its cost, from data it does not publish (KW Appraisal Group, 2025). Hunker repeats that range as 30 to 40% with credit (Hunker).

What to use instead. No published measurement exists, so no percentage should be quoted as a fence's return. The fair statement is that NAR's agent surveys have not included a fence. One appraiser's opinion is 30-40% of cost. A seller who wants a number for one house needs a local appraiser or a set of nearby sales with and without fences.

"A vinyl fence lasts 20 to 30 years" (and wood 15 to 20, chain-link 15 to 20)

The claim as repeated. Angi's vinyl article, updated July 2026, says the short answer is "between 20 and 30 years," and up to 50 years or more (Angi). The earliest archived version, dated February 28, 2023, says the same 20 to 30 years (Angi, 2023 capture). That 2023 article said wood fences typically last 10 to 15 years (Angi, 2023 capture). Angi's wood article now says 15 to 30 years (Angi). HomeGuide gives chain-link 15 – 20 years (HomeGuide). None of these pages names a study.

Where it came from. The best-known reference is the National Association of Home Builders' 2007 Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components. Its only fence line says "polyvinyl fences are designed to last a lifetime" (NAHB, 2007). It has no year figure for wood, chain-link or aluminum fences. The study came from a telephone survey of manufacturers, trade associations and researchers in the summer of 2006 (NAHB, 2007). The sources it lists for that table include Digger Specialties, an Indiana maker of outdoor living products (NAHB, 2007). So "lifetime" is a design claim from industry, not a measured service life, and the report says it is not a guarantee. InterNACHI, the home inspectors' association, lists polyvinyl fencing at 100+ years and wood fencing at 20 years (InterNACHI) (InterNACHI). It names no study for either line and calls its chart a guideline only. Makers' "lifetime" warranties are narrower than the word suggests. CertainTeed's Bufftech vinyl fence Lifetime Limited Warranty, for products bought after 6/1/2014, covers manufacturing defects only (CertainTeed warranty). Its lifetime coverage belongs to the original homeowner and ends when the house is sold (CertainTeed warranty). It excludes normal wear and tear, weathering and poor installation.

What to use instead. The only measured figures we found are for fence posts, not whole fences. In the USDA Forest Products Laboratory's long-running ground-contact test in southern Mississippi, untreated southern pine posts failed within 2 to 4 years (Lebow et al., USDA FPL, 2013). Posts treated with chromated copper arsenate had no failures after 35 years (Lebow et al., USDA FPL, 2013), and pentachlorophenol-treated posts lasted more than 60 years (Lebow et al., USDA FPL, 2013). That is one severe decay site. For vinyl, aluminum and chain-link fences, the defensible sources are the warranty's written terms and the maker's stated design life, each named as such.

"Video lifts conversions 80%"

The claim as repeated. Treehouse Marketing, a contractor marketing agency, told contractors in 2020 that "according to Eyewide Digital" a landing-page video can raise conversion by up to 80% (Treehouse Marketing). The source it means is EyeView Digital. The fence-specific agency and video vendor pages we read did not print the 80% figure. Beverly Boy Productions' page for fence builders uses a different unsourced claim: video can "boost your revenue up to 49% faster" (Beverly Boy).

Where it came from. The trail starts with EyeView, which made and tested videos for its clients. A blog post of December 4, 2008 said visitors to eToro's site who viewed EyeView's video were 20% more likely to download the product. That compared viewers with non-viewers, who chose for themselves whether to watch (EyeView, 2009 capture). The first 80% figure we found is in a post of February 10, 2009. It said viewers of EyeView's videos for UMOO were 80% more likely to become depositing users, the same kind of comparison (EyeView). In November 2009 a TutorVista manager said the first test on one landing page "boosted conversion by over 80 percent" (EyeView). EyeView's case study gave that one A/B test, with the video autoplaying for first-time visitors, as an 86 percent increase (EyeView).

How it changed. EyeView's 2010 white paper said that "in some cases" the boost was over 80% (EyeView white paper). It reported the eToro split test, earlier told as 20%, as almost 32 percent (EyeView white paper). By August 2010 Unbounce, a landing-page software seller, wrote that "a study by eyeviewdigital.com shows that using video on landing pages can increase conversion by 80%" (Unbounce, 2010 capture). That dropped "in some cases" and the single-client scope. By 2020 the contractor version had misspelled the source's name.

What to use instead. Unbounce later looked at about 35,000 of its customers' landing pages in each of three periods from late 2020 to early 2021 (Unbounce). It found in August 2021 that video had a minimal or negative effect on conversion, whatever the page's goal (Unbounce). Its industries did not include fence contractors. A fence company that wants a number for its own site needs its own test: the same page with and without the video, shown to visitors at random.

"The U.S. fence market is worth $12 billion"

The claim as repeated. Market-size figures for U.S. fencing come from the Freedonia Group, a firm that sells paywalled research reports. Its current report page says the U.S. fencing market reached $11.7 billion in 2022 (Freedonia). It forecasts growth of 1.2% a year to $12.4 billion in 2027, after price spikes in 2021 and 2022 (Freedonia).

Where it came from. The figure is Freedonia's own estimate of demand for fencing products, the posts, panels, wire and rails, by value. It is not fence contractors' installation revenue, and its method is behind the paywall. Earlier editions show how the number moves. In September 2016 Freedonia forecast 2020 demand at 880 million linear feet worth $7.5 billion (Freedonia via PR Newswire, 2016). In August 2020 it called the market $8 billion (Freedonia, 2020).

What to use instead. A fence market figure should be quoted as "Freedonia's estimate of U.S. fencing product demand," with the year. For what fence contractors themselves take in, the public source is the Census Bureau's Economic Census for specialty trade contractors (NAICS 238990): its establishments reported $10,947,778 thousand in receipts from new fence construction in 2022. Fence installation shares that code with other trades.

Every popular claim our research pages trace, 763 in all, is on one page: popular video statistics, fact-checked.

How we built this page

We started from the questions people search for about fence contractor video statistics and looked for the organization that actually produced each answer. Every figure on this page sits in an evidence ledger with its source, the exact table or paragraph it came from, the measurement period, the population measured, and the date we checked it. This edition holds 502 figures from 59 publishers.

On November 5, 2026, each sourced figure on this page was re-fetched with the fetch cache cleared and matched against the recorded wording: BLS occupation wage estimates (through the BLS data API), Employment Projections and the Current Population Survey (bls.gov pages through Internet Archive copies, because bls.gov refuses automated requests) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Census County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics and the 2022 Economic Census (through the Census data API) and the 2022 NAICS Manual; Florida Statutes chapters 489, 515 and 556, CPSC’s Safety Barrier Guidelines for Residential Pools (an Internet Archive copy, because cpsc.gov refuses automated requests), Palm Beach County’s and Martin County’s contractor and permit pages, and the California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Louisiana licensing rules; the 10-K filings of Jewett-Cameron, UFP Industries, Trex and Tractor Supply and the franchise disclosure documents of Superior Fence & Rail, Life Saver Pool Fence and 76 Fence in Minnesota’s public CARDS database; CPSC’s 2026 pool and spa submersion report, CDC pages, the Common Ground Alliance’s DIRT reports and peer-reviewed studies (PubMed abstracts re-read through the National Library of Medicine’s E-utilities); the cost guides of Angi, Thumbtack, HomeGuide, Fixr and Ergeon, Houzz’s and Zillow’s surveys, and the pages behind each popular claim. Our registration counts come from Washington L&I’s open contractor file and CSLB’s annual and sunset reports, our 10-K phrase counts from EDGAR full-text search, our location-page figures from pages we read one at a time, and our YouTube figures from the YouTube Data API. We left out HomeAdvisor, the American Fence Association’s site, Sunshine 811, Municode, Broward County and Nevada’s contractor board (robots rules), Arizona’s Registrar of Contractors and Utah’s licensing site (bot walls), the Remodeling Cost vs. Value report (blocks automated reads) and the ICC code library (renders only in a browser).

We only cite the producer: government agencies, regulators, company filings and official posts, and the survey owner's own report. We do not cite statistics roundups, Statista-style aggregators, or salary sites without a public method. We did not bypass paywalls or sign-up forms; where a full report was gated, we used only the figures its publisher states publicly.

Figures marked "our calculation" are arithmetic on the cited numbers, and anyone can reproduce them:

This edition contains no Mark Studios customer data.

Limitations

• No federal count of fence contractors alone. Fence contractors file under NAICS 238990, a code shared with pool builders, pavers, sign erectors and crane rental, so every 238990 count on this page is shared context. Nonemployer counts are published only for the wider 2389 group. The payroll surveys (OEWS, QCEW) leave out self-employed installers, about a fifth of the occupation.
• Our YouTube read follows YouTube’s ranking. The 472 videos are what YouTube’s search returned for ‘fence installation’, ‘vinyl fence’ and ‘fence building’ (the top 200 of each), sorted by views with no country filter, on November 5, 2026. It is not a census of fence video, view counts are lifetime snapshots that include views from ads, and we sorted 318 channels by hand from their public text. One video holds 8.0% of all views, so we give fence businesses’ share with and without it.
• A few brands’ location pages. Within a brand most features come from one template, so the location-page shares describe a few templates, not the many independent fence contractors.
• Registry counts count paperwork. Washington records one specialty per registration and many fence builders register as general contractors; California’s latest published C-13 count is for 2019, and our 2026 count comes from CSLB’s list of currently renewed licences, which is built differently. Most states, including Florida and Texas, keep no state fence licence at all.
• Prices and franchise figures come from sellers. Angi, Thumbtack, HomeGuide, Fixr and Ergeon sell fence leads or fence installs, and their cost guides use their own data and methods; franchisors’ disclosure documents describe their own systems. They are third-party figures, not Mark Studios prices.
• The pool-fencing evidence is old and observational. The Cochrane review rests on three case-control studies, and CPSC’s death counts lag by about three years. No source we found measured whether video wins fence customers.

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48. HomeGuide (lead marketplace; seller), Fence Repair Cost (2026-02-20). Accessed 2026-11-05.
49. Ergeon (fence installer; seller), Wood Fence Cost 2026: $32-$62 Per Linear Foot Installed (2026-07-01). Accessed 2026-11-05.
50. Ergeon (fence installer; seller), Vinyl Fence Cost 2026: $45-$74 Per Linear Foot Installed (2026-07-01). Accessed 2026-11-05.
51. Ergeon (fence installer; seller), Chain Link Fence Cost 2026: $32-$71 Per Linear Foot Installed (2026-05-14). Accessed 2026-11-05.
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55. Thumbtack (lead marketplace; seller; poll by SurveyMonkey), Survey: Homeowners Will Spend $5K on Summer Curb Appeal Projects (2024-06-12). Accessed 2026-11-05.
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111. Angi (home-services lead marketplace; sells fence leads), How Much Does a Fence Increase a Home's Value? (2026-07-09). Accessed 2026-11-05.
112. Redfin (real estate brokerage; repeater), Does a Fence Add Value to a Home? Here's What the Data Says (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
113. HomeGuide (home-services directory; sells leads to pros), Does a Fence Add Value to a Home? (2026) (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
114. Opendoor (home buyer and seller; repeater), Home Features That Add the Most Value: Fences, Decks, Windows & More (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
115. Long Fence (fence contractor; sells fences), Will a Fence Add to My Home's Property Value? (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
116. Superior Fence & Rail (fence franchisor; sells fences), What Type Of Fences Add Property Value? (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
117. National Association of REALTORS Research Group (with NARI), 2022 Remodeling Impact Report (2022-04). Accessed 2026-11-05.
118. National Association of REALTORS Research Department (with NALP), 2018 Remodeling Impact Report: Outdoor Features (2018-05-23). Accessed 2026-11-05.
119. National Association of REALTORS Research Group (with NALP), 2023 Remodeling Impact Report: Outdoor Features (2023-03-17). Accessed 2026-11-05.
120. HomeLight (real estate agent referral and home-sale company), Does a Fence Increase Home Value, Or Is It Just Good for Pets and Privacy? (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
121. KW Appraisal Group (residential appraisal firm), Does a Fence Increase Property Value? (2025-05-18). Accessed 2026-11-05.
122. Hunker (home and garden publisher; repeater), Will A Fence Boost Your Home's Value? Here's What You Should Know (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
123. Angi (home-services lead marketplace; sells fence leads), How Long Does a Vinyl Fence Last? (2026-07-09). Accessed 2026-11-05.
124. Angi (home-services lead marketplace; sells fence leads), How Long Does a Vinyl Fence Last? (2023-02-28). Accessed 2026-11-05.
125. Angi (home-services lead marketplace; sells fence leads), How Long Does a Wood Fence Last? (2026-07-09). Accessed 2026-11-05.
126. National Association of Home Builders, Economics Group (sponsored by Bank of America Home Equity), Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components (2007-02). Accessed 2026-11-05.
127. International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI; home inspectors' trade body), InterNACHI's Standard Estimated Life Expectancy Chart for Homes (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
128. CertainTeed (vinyl fence maker; sells the product it warrants), Bufftech Lifetime Fence Products Warranty (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
129. CertainTeed (vinyl fence maker; sells the product it warrants), Bufftech Lifetime Fence Products Warranty (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
130. USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (Lebow et al.), Long-Term Durability of Pressure-Treated Wood in a Severe Test Site (2013). Accessed 2026-11-05.
131. Treehouse Marketing (contractor marketing agency; sells video and websites), 3 Reasons to Include Video in Your 2020 Contractor Marketing Efforts (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
132. Beverly Boy Productions (video production company; sells the videos it describes), Video Production for Fence Construction Services (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
133. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), EyeView - The new "Conversion" game (2008-12-04). Accessed 2026-11-05.
134. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), UMOO - a prime beef example of EyeView's success (2009-02-10). Accessed 2026-11-05.
135. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), Another video conversion success story (2009-11-10). Accessed 2026-11-05.
136. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), Case study: TutorVista (2009). Accessed 2026-11-05.
137. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), Making Video Accountable (EyeView white paper) (2010). Accessed 2026-11-05.
138. Unbounce (landing-page software seller), The benefits of using video on landing pages (2010-08). Accessed 2026-11-05.
139. Unbounce (landing-page software seller; analysis of its own customers' pages), Video on landing pages means more conversions, right? Wrong. Here's why (2021-08-26). Accessed 2026-11-05.
140. The Freedonia Group (market research firm; sells the report), US Fencing Industry Reports (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
141. The Freedonia Group (market research firm; sells the report), The Freedonia Group: US Demand for Fencing to Reach 880 Million Linear Feet (2016-09-29). Accessed 2026-11-05.
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