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There are 9.5 dedicated real estate photography businesses for every 10,000 homes for sale

Google Maps lists 982 photography businesses with "real estate" in their name, against an average of 1,037,489 active home listings. Connecticut has the most per listing (24.4 per 10,000); Montana and Wyoming have none.

50 states982 photography businesses1,037,489 active listings
Stagingmate Research
Published 2026-10-09
Method

Count of US Google Maps listings in photography categories (photographer, photography service, real estate photographer, aerial photographer, photography studio) whose name contains "real estate", by state, divided by the state's average monthly active listings on Realtor.com, times 10,000.

Sources
Google Maps business listings (names, categories, ratings and review topics) for US real estate agents, brokerages and photographers, collected October 2026Realtor.com monthly listing inventory data (active listings), all states, October 2025 to September 2026
Limits

Only businesses that name themselves as real estate photographers are counted; general photographers who also shoot listings are not, so the true number of photographers serving agents is higher.

Key findings

01Google Maps lists 982 photography businesses with "real estate" in the name across the 50 states.
02That's 9.5 per 10,000 active home listings, or 1.86 per 1,000 agent and brokerage listings.
03The most businesses: Florida (175), California (99) and Texas (68).
04Per listing, Connecticut leads at 24.4 per 10,000; Georgia is lowest among ranked states at 3.7.
982

photography businesses on Google Maps with "real estate" in their name.

9.5

of them per 10,000 active home listings nationally.

24.4

per 10,000 listings in Connecticut, the highest of any state.

Real estate photographers per 10,000 homes for sale

States with at least 10 real-estate-named photography businesses (31 states). Active listings averaged Oct 2025 to Sep 2026.

CT24
KS24
MA23
NJ17
HI16
CA15
IL15
KY13
CO13
NY13
WA12
MN11
FL11
OH10
OR10
PA10
NC10
WI9
TN9
MI9
VA9
SC8
NV8
MD8
UT8
AZ8
IN7
MO6
AL6
TX5
GA4
3.74
24.45

All 31 states

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Connecticut24.451144991.74
Kansas24.41873775.07
Massachusetts23.1424103722.04
New Jersey16.9529171101.88
Hawaii15.911062854.22
California15.0399658661.36
Illinois14.8529195271.57
Kentucky13.4616118833.28
Colorado13.3537277252.54
New York12.9146356411.82
Washington12.1427222351.77
Minnesota11.316141561.81
Florida11.161751567572.95
Ohio10.4721200531.71
Oregon10.3216155112.11
Pennsylvania9.6523238241.49
North Carolina9.5641428852.47
Wisconsin9.412127711.96
Tennessee8.7629330932.54
Michigan8.7220229251.52
Virginia8.5918209451.08
South Carolina8.1622269542.35
Nevada8.0710123911.37
Maryland7.5911144830.96
Utah7.5710132041.91
Arizona7.522293161.59
Indiana6.811161771.42
Missouri6.3812188151.57
Alabama6.2313208791.71
Texas5.26681293281.74
Georgia3.7418481371

Where real estate photographers are

StatePhotography businessesActive listingsPer 10k listings
Florida175156,75711.2
California9965,86615.0
Texas68129,3285.3
New York4635,64112.9
North Carolina4142,8859.6
Colorado3727,72513.3
New Jersey2917,11016.9
Illinois2919,52714.8
Tennessee2933,0938.8
Washington2722,23512.1
Massachusetts2410,37223.1
Pennsylvania2323,8249.7
South Carolina2226,9548.2
Arizona2229,3167.5
Ohio2120,05310.5
Michigan2022,9258.7
Kansas187,37724.4
Virginia1820,9458.6
Georgia1848,1373.7
Kentucky1611,88313.5

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Cite this study

Stagingmate Research (2026). There are 9.5 dedicated real estate photography businesses for every 10,000 homes for sale. https://stagingmate.com/research/real-estate-photography-statistics-the-market-map

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Free to use under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page. For the full dataset or a local cut, email press@stagingmate.com.

About this study

Google Maps lists 982 businesses with "real estate" in their photography business name. Many more general photographers also shoot listings.

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