How much does it cost to remove a ginkgo?
Removing a ginkgo around Indianapolis typically runs $400 to $1,900, with most jobs near $720. Ginkgo is about as close to a maintenance-free large shade tree as central Indiana gets — it shrugs off compacted clay, road salt, alkaline builder fill and narrow tree lawns, and it carries essentially no pest or disease list. So when a ginkgo generates a phone call, the problem is almost never the tree's health; it's fruit, an uncorrected fork, or a tree planted somewhere it will outgrow.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
50 to 75 ft tall with a 50 to 60 ft spread at maturity, and it will outlive the house — ginkgos routinely pass 200 years and the species includes individuals over 1,000. Because growth is slow, most ginkgos on central Indiana lots are still a low-to-mid bracket removal; a fully mature one over a roof is a crane job.
Condition changes the price
One of the better ice performers in central Indiana — branch attachments are wide-angled and the wood holds up under loads that break silver maple and Callery pear outright, and it is rated storm-resistant in urban tree evaluations. The failures that do happen are at old codominant unions on trees that never got structural pruning, not whole-limb tearouts.
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