Painter ads in Hamilton: C$7.91 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$234 in clicks at C$7.91 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.

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

Where the painter 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.

Specific jobs are the largest share of counted search volume in Hamilton, at 66.2%.

In Hamilton, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$24.33 a click.

Plan a month of painter 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.

Every painter 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 painter keywords in Hamilton are “interior painting” (159 searches a month at C$0.14 a click), “painters near me” (76 searches a month at C$24.33 a click), and “house painting” (25 searches a month at C$0.56 a click).

In Hamilton, “painting quote” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$24.44 a click, 145.6% above the C$9.95 median click price for painter across this country's tracked cities.

In Hamilton, “roof painting” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 9 searches a month.

In Hamilton, 6 of the 9 counted painter keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Hamilton compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, painters searches in Hamilton peaked in May 2026 at 940 and were lowest in December 2025 at 130. Hamilton's single latest tracked month is down 18.2% on the same month a year ago and down 57.1% 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 "interior painting", up 203.2%.

• Hamilton is 6th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.
• Hamilton is 7th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Hamilton is 3rd of 7 Ontario cities by click price, among the three lowest.
• Hamilton is 4th of 7 Ontario cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Hamilton logs 37.6 searches a month for every 100,000 people, fewer than the 51.4 logged by Ottawa, the nearest-ranked city in the same province.
• Hamilton's 37.6 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 31.8 for this service.
• Hamilton's median painter click price of C$7.91 is 20.5% below the country median of C$9.95.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are up 2.6% on the 12 months before.
• In Hamilton, searches peak in May, about 63.2% above the monthly average, and are lowest in February.

Painter businesses in Hamilton

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

Painter click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 5th of 6 countries by median painter 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.

Questions people ask about painter ads in Hamilton

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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.