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Accountant ads in Oshawa: C$9.59 a click

A Google Ads click for an accountant in Oshawa costs C$9.59 at the search-weighted average (154 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 29.9% on the 12 months before. Prices are in CAD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
C$9.59
Searches a month
154
Year on year
down 29.9%
Click cost per booked return
put in your rates

There is a sourced lead rate for accountant (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked return. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

Cost per booked return

What a booked return costs in clicks

There is a sourced lead rate for accountant (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked return. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

Cost per booked return in Oshawa is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Oshawa figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked return
General searchesC$5.44put in your rates
Near meC$16.71put in your rates

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

By intent

Where the accountant searches are in Oshawa

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

General searches are the largest share of counted search volume in Oshawa, at 46.5%.

In Oshawa, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$16.71 a click.

General searches

“accountant”
Searches a month72, 46.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$5.44

Near me

“accountant near me”
Searches a month42, 27.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$16.71

Specific jobs

“tax accountant”, “tax agent”, “tax return accountant”, “small business accountant”, “business accountant”
Searches a month41, 26.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price

Related keywords

Not counted
“bookkeeper”, “bookkeeping services”
Searches a month65
Click price, weighted avgC$16.33
Related keywords sit next to this service but are not counted in the searches or the search-weighted average click price above.
Plan

Plan a month of accountant ads in Oshawa

Put in your own value per return and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

What the budget buys (worked example)

Clicks a month
104.3
Calls or forms
2.8
Booked returns
put in yours
Click cost per booked return
put in yours

C$1,000 at C$9.59 a click buys about 104.3 clicks a month.

Put in your call and booking rates to see how many booked returns this buys.

Put in your value per return and your margin to see whether this pays back.

Keywords

Every accountant keyword tracked in Oshawa

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched accountant keywords in Oshawa are “accountant” (72 searches a month at C$5.44 a click), “accountant near me” (42 searches a month at C$16.71 a click), and “business accountant” (13 searches a month with no Google click price).

In Oshawa, “accountant near me” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$16.71 a click, 95.4% above the C$8.55 median click price for accountant across this country's tracked cities.

In Oshawa, “tax return accountant” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

In Oshawa, 2 of the 7 counted accountant keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
accountantGeneral searches72C$5.44
accountant near meNear me42C$16.71
business accountantSpecific jobs13no price
tax accountantSpecific jobs11no price
small business accountantSpecific jobs8no price
tax agentSpecific jobs7no price
tax return accountantSpecific jobs2no price
bookkeeper
Related, not counted
Related keywords57C$16.33
bookkeeping services
Related, not counted
Related keywords8no price
Ranks and trend

How Oshawa compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, accountants searches in Oshawa peaked in March 2025 at 390 and were lowest in June 2026 at 90. Oshawa's single latest tracked month is up 5.6% on the same month a year ago and up 35.7% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Oshawa, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "tax return accountant", down 66.7%.

  • Oshawa is 8th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Oshawa is 13th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • Oshawa is 3rd of 7 Ontario cities by click price, among the three lowest.
  • Oshawa is 7th of 7 Ontario cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • Oshawa logs 31.2 searches a month for every 100,000 people, fewer than the 35.4 logged by Kitchener, the nearest-ranked city in the same province.
  • Oshawa's 31.2 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 57.5 for this service.
  • Oshawa's median accountant click price of C$9.59 is 12.2% above the country median of C$8.55.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 29.9% on the 12 months before.
  • In Oshawa, searches peak in March, about 58.6% above the monthly average, and are lowest in November.
Businesses

Accountant businesses in Oshawa

Statistics Canada does not publish a business count for accountants in Oshawa at this level, so this page shows none. It publishes counts for Oshawa only for broader industry groups, which mix accountants with other businesses. That is a finding about the published statistics, not about how many accountants work here.

Population: 493,441 (Oshawa (CMA), Ontario). Source: Statistics Canada table 17-10-0148-01, population estimates by CMA/CA, July 1 vintage.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

6 countries

Accountant click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 2nd of 6 countries by median accountant click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$5.00150.15
Canada
this page's country
US$6.1257.513
AustraliaUS$7.75176.625
New ZealandUS$8.46107.86
United KingdomUS$13.8475.825
United StatesUS$19.8322.250

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

FAQ

Questions people ask about accountant ads in Oshawa

How much does a Google Ads click cost for an accountant in Oshawa?

C$9.59 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted accountant search terms in Oshawa (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Oshawa is 8th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for an accountant in Oshawa each month?

154 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 29.9% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked return cost in clicks for accountants in Oshawa?

There is a sourced lead rate for accountant (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked return. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Population and business counts: StatCan publishes CMA/CSD-level business counts (table 33-10-1016-01) to 4-digit NAICS only (verified: max classificationCode length 4 across all 445 members). NAICS 541212 shares its 4-digit group 5412 with other 6-digit codes, so the 6-digit figure cannot be isolated at CMA geography without silently substituting the coarser group. Click prices convert from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 2026-09 average. Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.

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Method

Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for Canada, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Oshawa with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.

Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.

Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.

Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.

Cost per booked return is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.

DataForSEO reports click prices in US$; they convert to CAD at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 CAD = 0.7157 US$).

The tags “Lowest click price on this page” and “Highest click price on this page” rank the intent groups on this page by click price. They are rankings, not verdicts.

Sources

Data and sources

Search data pulled 13 October 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.

DatasetLicence
DataForSEO, retrieved 13 October 2026
DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API)
US benchmark lead rate (calls and forms), Finance & Insurance
Published benchmark, cited
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

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