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Locksmith ads in Hamilton: C$10.82 a click

A Google Ads click for a locksmith in Hamilton costs C$10.82 at the search-weighted average (1,052 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 12.8% on the 12 months before. Prices are in CAD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
C$10.82
Searches a month
1,052
Year on year
down 12.8%
Click cost per booked job
C$320

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$320 in clicks at C$10.82 a click.

In Hamilton, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at C$1.59. The highest click price on this page in Hamilton is near me at C$11.32.

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$320 in clicks at C$10.82 a click.

Cost per booked job 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 job
General searchesC$10.66C$315
Near meC$11.32C$335
UrgentC$10.52C$311
Specific jobsC$1.59C$47

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

By intent

Where the locksmith 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 50.0%.

In Hamilton, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$11.32 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency locksmith”) costs C$10.44 a click, against C$10.66 for “locksmith”.

General searches

“locksmith”
Searches a month450, 42.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$10.66

Near me

Highest click price on this page
“locksmith near me”
Searches a month526, 50.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$11.32
In Hamilton, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Urgent

“emergency locksmith”, “24 hour locksmith”, “locked out of house”, “locked out of car”
Searches a month38, 3.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$10.52

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“lock change”, “rekey locks”, “lock repair”, “safe opening”, “commercial locksmith”
Searches a month38, 3.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgC$1.59
In Hamilton, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“key cutting”
Searches a month89
Click price, weighted avgC$4.02
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 locksmith ads in Hamilton

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
92.4
Calls or forms
7.4
Booked jobs
3.1
Click cost per booked job
C$320

C$1,000 at C$10.82 a click buys about 92.4 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 7.4 calls and 3.1 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about C$320 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every locksmith 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 locksmith keywords in Hamilton are “locksmith near me” (526 searches a month at C$11.32 a click), “locksmith” (450 searches a month at C$10.66 a click), and “locked out of car” (11 searches a month at C$12.99 a click).

In Hamilton, “lock change” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$0.13 a click, 98.8% below the C$10.81 median click price for locksmith across this country's tracked cities.

In Hamilton, “safe opening” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

In Hamilton, 7 of the 11 counted locksmith keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
locksmithGeneral searches450C$10.66
locksmith near meNear me526C$11.32
locked out of carUrgent11C$12.99
24 hour locksmithUrgent10no price
emergency locksmithUrgent10C$10.44
locked out of houseUrgent7C$6.73
lock changeSpecific jobs10C$0.13
rekey locksSpecific jobs10C$3.06
commercial locksmithSpecific jobs9no price
lock repairSpecific jobs7no price
safe openingSpecific jobs2no price
key cutting
Related, not counted
Related keywords89C$4.02
Ranks and trend

How Hamilton compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, locksmiths searches in Hamilton peaked in April 2023 at 1,850 and were lowest in January 2026 at 860. Hamilton's single latest tracked month is down 13.6% on the same month a year ago and down 11.6% 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 "emergency locksmith", down 52.0%.

  • Hamilton is 7th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Hamilton is 8th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Hamilton is 4th of 7 Ontario cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Hamilton is 4th of 7 Ontario cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Hamilton logs 120.8 searches a month for every 100,000 people, fewer than the 143.0 logged by Windsor, the nearest-ranked city in the same province.
  • Hamilton's 120.8 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 154.5 for this service.
  • Hamilton's median locksmith click price of C$10.82 is 0.1% above the country median of C$10.81.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 12.8% on the 12 months before.
  • In Hamilton, searches peak in April, about 20.9% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

Locksmith businesses in Hamilton

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

Locksmith click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 4th of 6 countries by median locksmith 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$2.88311.05
New ZealandUS$3.38199.66
AustraliaUS$6.61320.125
Canada
this page's country
US$7.74154.513
United StatesUS$17.43165.250
United KingdomUS$21.13188.225

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 locksmith ads in Hamilton

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

C$10.82 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted locksmith search terms in Hamilton (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Hamilton is 7th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.

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

1,052 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 12.8% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for locksmiths in Hamilton?

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$320 in clicks at C$10.82 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 561622 shares its 4-digit group 5616 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 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: Locksmith in Toronto, Locksmith in Ottawa, Locksmith in Kitchener, Locksmith across Canada, All services in Hamilton.

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