Locksmith ads in Oshawa: C$8.83 a click

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$261 in clicks at C$8.83 a click.

Cost per booked job 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.

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

Where the locksmith 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.

Near me are the largest share of counted search volume in Oshawa, at 53.8%.

In Oshawa, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$9.10 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency locksmith”) costs C$11.21 a click, against C$9.03 for “locksmith”.

Plan a month of locksmith ads in Oshawa

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.

Every locksmith 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 locksmith keywords in Oshawa are “locksmith near me” (192 searches a month at C$9.10 a click), “locksmith” (112 searches a month at C$9.03 a click), and “emergency locksmith” (9 searches a month at C$11.21 a click).

In Oshawa, “locked out of car” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$2.11 a click, 80.5% below the C$10.81 median click price for locksmith across this country's tracked cities.

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

In Oshawa, 5 of the 11 counted locksmith keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Oshawa compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, locksmiths searches in Oshawa peaked in August 2025 at 630 and were lowest in April 2023 at 280. Oshawa's single latest tracked month is down 42.9% on the same month a year ago and down 5.3% 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 "locked out of house", up 300.0%.

• Oshawa is 5th 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 71.9 searches a month for every 100,000 people, fewer than the 89.2 logged by Kitchener, the nearest-ranked city in the same province.
• Oshawa's 71.9 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 154.5 for this service.
• Oshawa's median locksmith click price of C$8.83 is 18.3% below the country median of C$10.81.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 24.9% on the 12 months before.
• In Oshawa, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, July, is not a strong peak.

Locksmith businesses in Oshawa

Statistics Canada does not publish a business count for locksmiths in Oshawa at this level, so this page shows none. It publishes counts for Oshawa 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: 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.

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.

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.

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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.