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Data from the 2007 Households and the Environment Survey reveal that 86% of households in Canada with a lawn used a lawn mower, with a small number of households (2%) having reported using more than one type of lawn mower. Seven out of ten households used a gas-powered lawn mower, 15% used an electric mower, while just 1 in 25 (4%) used a manual one. Households in Prince Edward Island were most likely to have used a lawn mower with a gasoline motor (87%), followed closely by those in New Brunswick (85%). Six percent of households in British Columbia used a manual lawn mower to cut their grass. The 14% of households with a lawn that did not use a lawn mower may have had their lawns maintained by a lawn care company, may not have mowed their lawns or were not responsible for the maintenance of their lawns.
Table 1 Lawn mower use, Canada and provinces, 2007
