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Top Soil

Maybe

An estimated 0.3% of orders come back. But the top 5 brands take 82% of clicks, so Top Soil is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 28% of 8,839 Patio, Lawn & Garden niches · +5 vs the category median of 56
Market size
$288K/yr332K searches / yr
90-day growth
+73.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
56%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 79 sellers

Flapen Score

Top Soil against its category

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

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Top Soil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Top Soil 332K times last year and spent an estimated $288K. The top 5 brands take 82% of clicks. Demand peaks in Mar–Apr–May–Jun–Jul. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 332K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +73.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $288K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
332K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+73.7%
Conversion, latest week
3.3%
Market size, estimated
$288Ka year
Peak month
April7.6× the quietest month
Top search term
top soil for lawns94K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $26.19.

Listings sell for $26.19 on average, from $2.89 to $69.59. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $26.19 that is $13K to $20K a year per listing.

Average price
$26.19inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.89–$69.59
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$13K–$20K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

83% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 58% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #370 within Soils, Mulches & Planting Media. It carries 2,665 reviews at 4.39 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
83%
Prime listings
58%
Out of stock, average day
3.1%
Average rank
#370in Soils, Mulches & Planting Media
Average rating
4.39 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,665per listing
Listings tracked
24

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 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 56 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
56 months

Products

Top Top Soil 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 56% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

13 rising

Sellers

79

Top-5 brand share

82%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

56%

Top 20: 95%

Open market

15%

  • Brand 152%
  • Brand 216%
  • Brand 35%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 15%)

Demand

Top Soil search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

25K15KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 7.6×

Search terms

Top Top Soil search terms shoppers use

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

  • top soil for lawns94K/yr
  • lawn soil39K/yr
  • organic top soil41K/yr
  • topsoil for lawn27K/yr
  • organic topsoil20K/yr
  • fill dirt16K/yr
  • top soil for grass11K/yr
  • scotts lawn soil9K/yr
  • lawn soil for grass9K/yr
  • black dirt9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Top Soil

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Plant Growth”
28%of negative reviews mention “Plant Growth”
0.3%of orders come back
“No growth”
A buyer, on “Plant Growth”28% 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 Top Soil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.