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House cleaning ads in Halifax: C$8.19 a click

A Google Ads click for a house cleaner in Halifax costs C$8.19 at the search-weighted average (162 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 41.4% on the 12 months before. Prices are in CAD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
C$8.19
Searches a month
162
Year on year
down 41.4%
Click cost per booked clean
C$242

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 clean costs about C$242 in clicks at C$8.19 a click.

In Halifax, the lowest click price on this page is general searches at C$7.13. The highest click price on this page in Halifax is specific jobs at C$14.67.

Cost per booked clean

What a booked clean 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 clean costs about C$242 in clicks at C$8.19 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked clean
General searchesC$7.13C$211
Near meC$8.25C$244
Specific jobsC$14.67C$434

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

By intent

Where the house cleaning searches are in Halifax

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 Halifax, at 47.5%.

In Halifax, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$14.67 a click.

General searches

Lowest click price on this page
“house cleaning”, “cleaning services”
Searches a month77, 47.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$7.13
In Halifax, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Near me

“house cleaning near me”, “cleaning services near me”
Searches a month70, 43.2% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$8.25

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“end of lease cleaning”, “bond cleaning”, “deep cleaning service”, “regular house cleaning”, “spring cleaning service”
Searches a month15, 9.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$14.67
In Halifax, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“office cleaning”, “carpet cleaning”
Searches a month213
Click price, weighted avgC$3.87
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 house cleaning ads in Halifax

Put in your own value per clean 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
122.1
Calls or forms
9.8
Booked cleans
4.1
Click cost per booked clean
C$242

C$1,000 at C$8.19 a click buys about 122.1 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 9.8 calls and 4.1 booked cleans, so each booked clean costs about C$242 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every house cleaning keyword tracked in Halifax

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 house cleaning keywords in Halifax are “cleaning services” (57 searches a month at C$7.84 a click), “cleaning services near me” (55 searches a month at C$9.85 a click), and “house cleaning” (20 searches a month at C$5.10 a click).

In Halifax, “deep cleaning service” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$14.67 a click, 99.9% above the C$7.34 median click price for house cleaning across this country's tracked cities.

In Halifax, “bond cleaning” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Halifax, 5 of the 9 counted house cleaning keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
cleaning servicesGeneral searches57C$7.84
house cleaningGeneral searches20C$5.10
cleaning services near meNear me55C$9.85
house cleaning near meNear me15C$2.39
deep cleaning serviceSpecific jobs12C$14.67
spring cleaning serviceSpecific jobs2no price
end of lease cleaningSpecific jobs1no price
bond cleaningSpecific jobs0no price
regular house cleaningSpecific jobsnoneno price
carpet cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords202C$1.33
office cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords11C$50.50
Ranks and trend

How Halifax compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, house cleaners searches in Halifax peaked in September 2024 at 410 and were lowest in April 2023 at 80. Halifax's single latest tracked month is down 54.8% on the same month a year ago and down 53.3% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Halifax, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "bond cleaning", down 100.0%.

  • Halifax is 10th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Halifax is 12th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • Halifax is the only city in Nova Scotia in this set, so there is no same-province rank.
  • Halifax's 29.7 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 43.8 for this service.
  • Halifax's median house cleaning click price of C$8.19 is 11.6% above the country median of C$7.34.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 41.4% on the 12 months before.
  • In Halifax, searches peak in July, about 27.7% above the monthly average, and are lowest in January.
Businesses

House cleaning businesses in Halifax

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

Population: 544,834 (Halifax (CMA), Nova Scotia). 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

House cleaning click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 3rd of 6 countries by median house cleaning 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$1.88104.25
United KingdomUS$3.3447.125
Canada
this page's country
US$5.2543.813
New ZealandUS$5.3857.46
AustraliaUS$8.75106.725
United StatesUS$11.7740.550

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 house cleaning ads in Halifax

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a house cleaner in Halifax?

C$8.19 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted house cleaning search terms in Halifax (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Halifax is 10th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a house cleaner in Halifax each month?

162 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 41.4% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked clean cost in clicks for house cleaners in Halifax?

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 clean costs about C$242 in clicks at C$8.19 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: 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 561720 shares its 4-digit group 5617 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 Halifax 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 clean 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

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