Yes. Building cleaning is classified under 81.2, landscaping under 81.30, caretaker services under 81.10. Businesses offering several services are classified under their main activity.
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Building and window cleaners, caretaker and facility services, landscaping firms, winter services and pest controllers – for manufacturers of cleaning agents and machines, workwear and garden equipment, property managers looking for service providers, and software providers. Start with a clear inclusion and exclusion brief for German companies. Use industry, territory and required contact fields to describe a workable target group rather than requesting the largest possible list.
Our database (as of 21 October 2026): 38,893 businesses in this industry, 36,121 of them with a phone number.
Export of the whole industry: €359 (final price). Selections by federal state, district or your own filters are quoted on request.
Official statistics: 133,717 businesses in Germany according to Destatis, business register, GENESIS table 52111-0010 (reference year 2024, table updated 21 September 2026). Division 81 services to buildings and landscape activities: combined facilities support (81.1), cleaning (81.2) and landscaping (81.3). This is the size of the market, not the size of our database.
| Item | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses in our database | 38,893 | 100 % |
| with phone number | 36,121 | 92.9 % |
| with email address | 21,226 | 54.6 % |
| with website | 21,410 | 55.0 % |
| Price for the whole industry | €359 | Final price |
Division 81 “Services to buildings and landscape activities” combines services around buildings and grounds: combined facilities support (81.1), cleaning of buildings, streets and vehicles (81.2) and landscaping and the care of green spaces (81.3).
Construction work on buildings is not included – roofers, painters and installers are in Construction and trades – nor are tree nurseries and horticultural businesses that grow plants (section A). The management of buildings on behalf of owners belongs to real estate activities (68.32).
| WZ 2008 | Official title | For your selection |
|---|---|---|
| 81.10 | Combined facilities support activities | caretaker and facility services with several services at one property |
| 81.21 | General cleaning of buildings | regular office and maintenance cleaning |
| 81.22 | Other building and industrial cleaning activities | window and facade cleaning, industrial cleaning |
| 81.29 | Other cleaning activities | pest control, street cleaning and winter services, cleaning of vehicles |
| 81.30 | Landscape service activities | planting and maintenance of gardens, parks and green spaces |
Building cleaning is a craft, landscaping is not. There is no common directory of both.
These 15 columns are included.
Targeting brief for Building cleaning and landscaping firms: For each relevant code (81.10, 81.21, 81.22, 81.29, 81.30), decide which activity fits your offer and which neighbouring activities to exclude. Unavailable attributes are: number of employees and properties served; customers and clients; certifications and membership of a guild or association; service area beyond the registered office; names of property and branch managers. Do not treat these as filters already applied to the list. Transfer the boundaries explained below into the brief and flag the research your team still needs to do.
Many businesses offer several services: regular cleaning, caretaking, grounds maintenance and winter services for the same properties. Statistically they are classified under their main activity; if you want to reach all property service providers in a region, request the whole of division 81.
Alongside large facility service companies with many branches there are numerous sole traders. The legal form gives a rough indication of size; the number of employees is not part of the export.
The clients of these businesses – property managers and housing companies – are in the industry Real estate and property management.
We sell cleaning machines and are looking for building cleaning businesses (81.21, 81.22) in Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt with a phone number. Pure caretaker services should not be included. How large is the selection?
Use cases
Field sales and demonstrations at building cleaning businesses in a region.
Win businesses with many employees working on site as customers.
Landscapers by postcode for route planning.
Property managers and companies looking for cleaning and grounds maintenance providers.
Questions
Yes. Building cleaning is classified under 81.2, landscaping under 81.30, caretaker services under 81.10. Businesses offering several services are classified under their main activity.
No. Businesses that grow plants belong to agriculture (section A) and are in the industry Agriculture and food; garden centres selling to end customers belong to retail.
No. Managing buildings on behalf of owners belongs to real estate activities (68.32) and is in the industry Real estate and property management.
No. Selection helps document relevance, but does not establish demand, contact permission or response rates. Confirm which criteria can actually be applied and retain exclusions with the agreed brief.
133,717 businesses in Germany according to Destatis, business register, GENESIS table 52111-0010 (reference year 2024, table updated 21 September 2026). Division 81 services to buildings and landscape activities: combined facilities support (81.1), cleaning (81.2) and landscaping (81.3). This is a figure from official statistics, not the size of our dataset.
38,893 businesses in our database (as of 21 October 2026), 36,121 of them with a phone number (92.9%), 21,226 with an email address and 21,410 with a website. Regional filters reduce the number; we confirm the size of your selection before you order.
Format, sources, price and marketing law (§ 7 UWG): questions about all industries.