Vet ads in Hamilton: C$5.58 a click

What a booked appointment costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 16.22% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Animals & Pets) and a booking rate of 22% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Patient Prism - Veterinary Patient Access Report 2025), a booked appointment costs about C$156 in clicks at C$5.58 a click.

Cost per booked appointment 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 vet 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 47.3%.

In Hamilton, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$9.51 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency vet”) costs C$8.10 a click, against C$5.39 for “vet”.

Plan a month of vet ads in Hamilton

Put in your own value per appointment and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

Every vet 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 vet keywords in Hamilton are “vet near me” (1,675 searches a month at C$4.83 a click), “vet” (1,020 searches a month at C$5.39 a click), and “animal hospital” (318 searches a month at C$5.84 a click).

In Hamilton, “cat vet” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$34.25 a click, 600.4% above the C$4.89 median click price for vet across this country's tracked cities.

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

In Hamilton, 9 of the 12 counted vet keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Hamilton compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, vets searches in Hamilton peaked in August 2023 at 6,810 and were lowest in February 2026 at 2,920. Hamilton's single latest tracked month is down 0.3% on the same month a year ago and down 28.8% 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 "cat vet", up 123.3%.

• Hamilton is 8th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.
• Hamilton is 7th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Hamilton is 5th 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 407.1 searches a month for every 100,000 people, fewer than the 464.7 logged by Ottawa, the nearest-ranked city in the same province.
• Hamilton's 407.1 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 390.5 for this service.
• Hamilton's median vet click price of C$5.58 is 14.1% above the country median of C$4.89.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 21.2% on the 12 months before.
• In Hamilton, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, September, is not a strong peak.

Vet businesses in Hamilton

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

Vet click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 5th of 6 countries by median vet 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.