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General Contractor ads in Windsor: C$5.43 a click

A Google Ads click for a general contractor in Windsor costs C$5.43 at the search-weighted average (278 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 27.0% on the 12 months before. Prices are in CAD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
C$5.43
Searches a month
278
Year on year
down 27.0%
Click cost per booked job
C$161

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about C$161 in clicks at C$5.43 a click.

In Windsor, the lowest click price on this page is near me at C$4.96. The highest click price on this page in Windsor is general searches at C$5.84.

Cost per booked job

What a booked job costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about C$161 in clicks at C$5.43 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searchesC$5.84C$173
Near meC$4.96C$147
Specific jobsC$5.37C$159

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

By intent

Where the general contractor searches are in Windsor

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

Specific jobs are the largest share of counted search volume in Windsor, at 60.4%.

In Windsor, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$5.84 a click.

General searches

Highest click price on this page
“general contractor”, “home renovator”
Searches a month68, 24.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$5.84
In Windsor, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Near me

Lowest click price on this page
“general contractors near me”
Searches a month42, 15.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$4.96
In Windsor, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Specific jobs

“home renovations”, “kitchen renovation”, “bathroom renovation”, “home additions”, “basement renovation”, “custom home builder”, “home extensions”, “whole home renovation”
Searches a month168, 60.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$5.37

Related keywords

Not counted
“new home builder”
Searches a month11
Click price, weighted avgno Google price
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 general contractor ads in Windsor

Put in your own value per job 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
184.2
Calls or forms
14.8
Booked jobs
6.2
Click cost per booked job
C$161

C$1,000 at C$5.43 a click buys about 184.2 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 14.8 calls and 6.2 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about C$161 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every general contractor keyword tracked in Windsor

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 general contractor keywords in Windsor are “bathroom renovation” (56 searches a month at C$3.19 a click), “general contractors near me” (42 searches a month at C$4.96 a click), and “general contractor” (38 searches a month at C$2.21 a click).

In Windsor, “general contractor” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$2.21 a click, 83.0% below the C$13.01 median click price for general contractor across this country's tracked cities.

In Windsor, “whole home renovation” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

In Windsor, 8 of the 11 counted general contractor keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
general contractorGeneral searches38C$2.21
home renovatorGeneral searches30C$10.45
general contractors near meNear me42C$4.96
bathroom renovationSpecific jobs56C$3.19
kitchen renovationSpecific jobs33C$5.28
home renovationsSpecific jobs30C$10.45
basement renovationSpecific jobs18C$5.92
custom home builderSpecific jobs17C$3.23
home additionsSpecific jobs7no price
home extensionsSpecific jobs5no price
whole home renovationSpecific jobs2no price
new home builder
Related, not counted
Related keywords11no price
Ranks and trend

How Windsor compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, general contractors searches in Windsor peaked in January 2025 at 980 and were lowest in December 2025 at 210. Windsor's single latest tracked month is level with the same month a year ago and down 22.0% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Windsor, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "general contractor", down 54.5%.

  • Windsor is 1st of 13 Canada cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Windsor is 12th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • Windsor is 1st of 7 Ontario cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Windsor is 7th of 7 Ontario cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • Windsor logs 56.9 searches a month for every 100,000 people, fewer than the 77.8 logged by Kitchener, the nearest-ranked city in the same province.
  • Windsor's 56.9 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 83.8 for this service.
  • Windsor's median general contractor click price of C$5.43 is 58.3% below the country median of C$13.01.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 27.0% on the 12 months before.
  • In Windsor, searches peak in January, about 41.8% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

General contractor businesses in Windsor

Statistics Canada does not publish a business count for general contractors in Windsor at this level, so this page shows none. No published industry code matches general contractors at this geography. That is a finding about the published statistics, not about how many general contractors work here.

Population: 488,738 (Windsor (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

General contractor click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 5th of 6 countries by median general contractor 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$2.7685.85
United KingdomUS$4.3853.225
AustraliaUS$6.72155.425
New ZealandUS$7.2191.36
Canada
this page's country
US$9.3183.813
United StatesUS$18.5075.950

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.

Rules

Rules for general contractors in Canada

Licensing is set by each province or territory. General-contractor licensing or registration varies by province; several provinces have no licence requirement at all.

FAQ

Questions people ask about general contractor ads in Windsor

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a general contractor in Windsor?

C$5.43 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted general contractor search terms in Windsor (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Windsor is 1st of 13 Canada cities by click price, the lowest.

How many people search for a general contractor in Windsor each month?

278 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 27.0% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for general contractors in Windsor?

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about C$161 in clicks at C$5.43 a click.

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). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: Statistics Canada NAICS Canada 2022 has no code 236118; the sole 6-digit child of 2361 Residential building construction is 236110. services_v5.json's industry_code for CA 'builder' (236118 Residential Remodelers) is a US NAICS 2022 code, not a Canadian one. 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 Windsor 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 job 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), Home & Home Improvement
Published benchmark, cited
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades
Published benchmark, cited
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

Related: General Contractor in Toronto, General Contractor in Ottawa, General Contractor in Hamilton, General Contractor across Canada, All services in Windsor.

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