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Brown Mulch

Maybe

An estimated 0.6% of orders come back. But shoppers spend an estimated $25K a year here, so Brown Mulch is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
55
55 / 100
Ranks 4,476 of 8,839 Patio, Lawn & Garden niches · −1 vs the category median of 56
Market size
$25K/yr50K searches / yr
90-day growth
+128.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
65%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 26 sellers

Flapen Score

Brown Mulch against its category

The dotted line is the Patio, Lawn & Garden average. Past it, Brown Mulch is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

55Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Brown Mulch market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Brown Mulch 50K times last year and spent an estimated $25K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 50K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +128.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $25K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
50K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+128.3%
Conversion, latest week
0.9%
Market size, estimated
$25Ka year
Top search term
brown mulch26K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $56.14.

Listings sell for $56.14 on average, from $5.51 to $316.06. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 750 to 1K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $56.14 that is $0 to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$56.14inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.51–$316.06
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
750–1K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$6K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

86% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 55% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #113 within Soils, Mulches & Planting Media. It carries 279 reviews at 4.08 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
86%
Prime listings
55%
Out of stock, average day
7.4%
Average rank
#113in Soils, Mulches & Planting Media
Average rating
4.08 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
279per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 61 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
61 months

Products

Top Brown Mulch products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 65% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

16 rising

Sellers

26

Top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

65%

Top 20: 98%

Open market

17%

  • Brand 129%
  • Brand 224%
  • Brand 315%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (10 brands, 17%)

Demand

Brown Mulch search demand

Weekly searches over the year. Pick a range.

2K2KApr '26May '26May '26May '26Jun '26Jun '26Jul '26

Search terms

Top Brown Mulch search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • brown mulch26K/yr
  • brown mulch for landscaping13K/yr
  • brown mulch for landscaping in bags5K/yr
  • dark brown mulch4K/yr
  • mulch brown3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Brown Mulch

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
24%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
0.6%of orders come back
“Too expensive”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”24% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Brown Mulch questions

Answered from the same tracked data.