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Hairdresser ads in Hamilton: C$1.24 a click

A Google Ads click for a hairdresser in Hamilton costs C$1.24 at the search-weighted average (10,938 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 21.8% on the 12 months before. Prices are in CAD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
C$1.24
Searches a month
10,938
Year on year
down 21.8%
Click cost per booked booking
put in your rates

There is a sourced lead rate for hairdresser (10.35% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Beauty & Personal Care) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked booking. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

In Hamilton, the lowest click price on this page is near me at C$1.19. The highest click price on this page in Hamilton is specific jobs at C$1.35.

Cost per booked booking

What a booked booking costs in clicks

There is a sourced lead rate for hairdresser (10.35% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Beauty & Personal Care) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked booking. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked booking
General searchesC$1.24put in your rates
Near meC$1.19put in your rates
Specific jobsC$1.35put in your rates

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

By intent

Where the hairdresser searches are in Hamilton

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

Near me are the largest share of counted search volume in Hamilton, at 56.3%.

In Hamilton, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$1.35 a click.

General searches

“hairdresser”, “hair salon”
Searches a month2,112, 19.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$1.24

Near me

Lowest click price on this page
“hairdresser near me”, “hair salon near me”
Searches a month6,159, 56.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$1.19
In Hamilton, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“haircut”, “balayage”, “hair color”, “keratin treatment”, “hair extensions”, “mens haircut”
Searches a month2,667, 24.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$1.35
In Hamilton, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“barber”, “barber near me”
Searches a month6,267
Click price, weighted avgC$1.33
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 hairdresser ads in Hamilton

Put in your own value per booking 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
806.5
Calls or forms
83.5
Booked bookings
put in yours
Click cost per booked booking
put in yours

C$1,000 at C$1.24 a click buys about 806.5 clicks a month.

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

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

Keywords

Every hairdresser keyword tracked in Hamilton

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 hairdresser keywords in Hamilton are “hair salon near me” (5,633 searches a month at C$1.19 a click), “hair salon” (1,867 searches a month at C$1.23 a click), and “haircut” (955 searches a month at C$1.65 a click).

In Hamilton, “mens haircut” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$1.96 a click, 108.5% above the C$0.94 median click price for hairdresser across this country's tracked cities.

In Hamilton, “keratin treatment” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 128 searches a month.

In Hamilton, 10 of the 10 counted hairdresser keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
hair salonGeneral searches1,867C$1.23
hairdresserGeneral searches245C$1.33
hair salon near meNear me5,633C$1.19
hairdresser near meNear me526C$1.27
haircutSpecific jobs955C$1.65
mens haircutSpecific jobs729C$1.96
balayageSpecific jobs401C$0.27
hair colorSpecific jobs232C$0.35
hair extensionsSpecific jobs222C$1.56
keratin treatmentSpecific jobs128C$0.48
barber near me
Related, not counted
Related keywords4,667C$1.31
barber
Related, not counted
Related keywords1,600C$1.38
Ranks and trend

How Hamilton compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, hairdressers searches in Hamilton peaked in August 2023 at 18,320 and were lowest in February 2026 at 9,310. Hamilton's single latest tracked month is down 11.4% on the same month a year ago and down 19.1% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Hamilton, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "hairdresser", down 38.9%.

  • Hamilton is 11th of 13 Canada cities by click price, among the three highest.
  • Hamilton is 7th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Hamilton is 6th of 7 Ontario cities by click price, among the three highest.
  • Hamilton is 3rd of 7 Ontario cities by monthly searches, among the three highest.
  • Hamilton logs 1,255.6 searches a month for every 100,000 people, fewer than the 1,372.3 logged by Toronto, the nearest-ranked city in the same province.
  • Hamilton's 1,255.6 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 1,284.1 for this service.
  • Hamilton's median hairdresser click price of C$1.24 is 31.9% above the country median of C$0.94.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 21.8% on the 12 months before.
  • In Hamilton, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, March, is not a strong peak.
Businesses

Hairdresser businesses in Hamilton

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

Population: 871,143 (Hamilton (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

Hairdresser click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 3rd of 6 countries by median hairdresser 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$0.491,721.35
United KingdomUS$0.591,158.825
Canada
this page's country
US$0.671,284.113
AustraliaUS$0.731,892.725
New ZealandUS$0.841,512.06
United StatesUS$1.15536.250

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 hairdresser ads in Hamilton

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a hairdresser in Hamilton?

C$1.24 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted hairdresser search terms in Hamilton (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Hamilton is 11th of 13 Canada cities by click price, among the three highest.

How many people search for a hairdresser in Hamilton each month?

10,938 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 21.8% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked booking cost in clicks for hairdressers in Hamilton?

There is a sourced lead rate for hairdresser (10.35% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Beauty & Personal Care) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked booking. 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 812110 shares its 4-digit group 8121 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 Hamilton 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 booking 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), Beauty & Personal Care
Published benchmark, cited
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

Related: Hairdresser in Toronto, Hairdresser in Ottawa, Hairdresser in Kitchener, Hairdresser across Canada, All services in Hamilton.

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