Last updated: July 2026
Type your address and LawnVex outlines the turf and returns your square footage in seconds, free. It excludes the house, driveway, and pool, so you get mowable area, not lot size. That is the number you actually need to buy the right amount of seed, sod, or fertilizer, or to get an accurate mowing quote.
No tape measure, no walking the yard, no guessing off a plat map. Enter the address, review the outline, read the square footage.
Estimated price
$54.00
Price = (sqft / 1000) x rate, with a stated minimum applied. A 6,000 sq ft lawn at $9 per 1,000 = $54. If the result falls below your per-stop minimum (commonly $35 to $50), the minimum is charged instead.
Enter the street address and satellite imagery loads the property from above. The tool detects the grass and draws an outline around only the mowable turf, then calculates the area inside that outline in square feet. Because it recognizes the house, driveway, and pool, those hardscapes are removed automatically instead of being counted as lawn. This takes seconds and needs nothing but the address. Compare that to the tape-measure method, where you walk the perimeter, break an irregular yard into rectangles and triangles, measure each, and add them up. The satellite method gets you a usable number before you would have finished unrolling the tape.
For pricing and material estimates, satellite measurement is accurate enough to quote from, typically within a few percent of a physical measurement on a standard suburban lot. The imagery is high resolution and the turf boundaries on most residential properties are clear from above, so the outline closely tracks the real grass line. Accuracy drops in specific cases: heavy tree canopy hiding grass underneath, very recent landscaping changes not yet in the imagery, or unusual shared boundaries. That is why the outline is always shown for review before the number is used. You can confirm it looks right, or adjust, before you rely on it.
Irregular lawns are exactly where address-based measurement beats a tape measure. Curved beds, pie-shaped lots, multiple disconnected grass areas front and back, and cutouts around patios are painful to measure by hand because you have to slice the yard into shapes and sum them. The satellite outline follows the real edges of the turf, curves and all, and returns one total. If the grass is split into separate zones, the tool captures each area and adds them into a single mowable-square-footage figure. You review the combined outline, so if a strip along the side yard or a back section got missed, you can see it before trusting the total.
Once you have square footage, materials are simple math. Grass seed for a new lawn generally goes down at about 6 to 8 pounds per 1,000 square feet, and overseeding an existing lawn at roughly 3 to 4 pounds per 1,000. So a 6,000-square-foot lawn needs about 36 to 48 pounds of seed for a new install, or 18 to 24 pounds to overseed. Sod is sold by the square foot or by the pallet, where one pallet typically covers around 400 to 500 square feet, so that same 6,000-square-foot lawn is roughly 12 to 15 pallets. Fertilizer bags list coverage on the label, commonly 5,000 or 15,000 square feet per bag, so you divide your square footage by the bag coverage. Every one of these calculations starts with the square footage this tool gives you.
Pros use the mowable square footage to produce a flat price in seconds instead of guessing at the curb. They take the turf area, apply a per-1,000-square-foot rate from their rate card, and get a consistent quote that clears their hourly target. Measuring instead of eyeballing is the single biggest fix for underpricing. For operators, LawnVex takes this further: the same address measurement flows straight into an instant three-tier quote, a public quote link you can text to the lead, and an embeddable widget so homeowners can self-quote from your website. One address becomes a priced, sendable quote without a site visit.
The core formula is simple: price = (square footage / 1,000) x your rate per 1,000 sq ft, with a stated minimum so tiny lawns still cover your drive time and setup. Most operators set their per-1,000 rate between $6 and $12 and a per-stop minimum around $35 to $50 as of July 2026. Worked example: say your rate is $9 per 1,000 square feet and your minimum is $40. You measure a lawn at 6,000 square feet. The math is (6,000 / 1,000) x $9 = $54. Since $54 is above your $40 minimum, the quote is $54. If that same rate hit a 3,000-square-foot lawn, the formula gives $27, but because $27 is below your $40 minimum, you quote $40, not $27.
| Lawn size (mowable sq ft) | Seed for new lawn (lbs) | Sod (approx. pallets) | Mowing price at $9 / 1,000 sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,000 | 12 - 16 | 4 - 5 | $40 (minimum applied) |
| 4,000 | 24 - 32 | 8 - 10 | $40 (minimum applied) |
| 6,000 | 36 - 48 | 12 - 15 | $54 |
| 8,000 | 48 - 64 | 16 - 20 | $72 |
| 10,000 | 60 - 80 | 20 - 25 | $90 |
| 15,000 | 90 - 120 | 30 - 38 | $135 |
| 21,780 (1/2 acre) | 131 - 174 | 44 - 55 | $196 |
Yes, measuring your lawn size by address is free. You type an address, review the turf outline, and get the mowable square footage without an account for a basic measurement. Operators who want to turn measurements into quotes can use the LawnVex free plan, which includes 3 measures a month at no cost.
For quoting and material estimates it is accurate enough to price from, usually within a few percent of a physical measurement on a standard suburban lot. The outline is shown for review so you can confirm it before relying on the number. Accuracy is lowest under heavy tree cover or on lots with very recent landscaping changes.
It measures only the mowable grass, not the whole lot. The tool recognizes the house, driveway, and pool and excludes them automatically, so you get turf area instead of parcel size. That distinction matters, because lot size can be double the actual grass you would mow or seed.
Yes, because the tool uses publicly available satellite imagery, you can measure any property from its address. That is how lawn care operators quote new leads without visiting the property first. You are only measuring visible outdoor turf, the same thing anyone can see from an aerial map.
Yes. Once you have the square footage, multiply it by a per-1,000 rate to estimate a mowing price, for example 6,000 sq ft at $9 per 1,000 is $54. For operators, LawnVex turns the measurement directly into an instant three-tier quote from your rate card. See our pricing guide for typical rates by lawn size.