Vet ads in Vancouver: C$12.10 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$339 in clicks at C$12.10 a click.

Cost per booked appointment in Vancouver is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Vancouver 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 Vancouver

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 Vancouver, at 46.4%.

In Vancouver, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$16.13 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency vet”) costs C$9.38 a click, against C$13.11 for “vet”.

Plan a month of vet ads in Vancouver

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 Vancouver

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 Vancouver are “vet near me” (2,975 searches a month at C$9.07 a click), “vet” (2,400 searches a month at C$13.11 a click), and “animal hospital” (592 searches a month at C$6.89 a click).

In Vancouver, “vet clinic” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$22.69 a click, 364.0% above the C$4.89 median click price for vet across this country's tracked cities.

In Vancouver, “dog desexing” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 8 searches a month.

In Vancouver, 10 of the 12 counted vet keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Vancouver compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, vets searches in Vancouver peaked in March 2025 at 15,600 and were lowest in December 2025 at 6,170. Vancouver's single latest tracked month is down 16.4% on the same month a year ago and down 0.1% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Vancouver, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "cat vet", up 71.4%.

• Vancouver is 13th of 13 Canada cities by click price, the highest.
• Vancouver is 4th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Vancouver is 2nd of 2 British Columbia cities by click price, the highest.
• Vancouver is 1st of 2 British Columbia cities by monthly searches, the highest.
• Vancouver logs 244.7 searches a month for every 100,000 people, fewer than the 554.3 logged by Victoria, the nearest-ranked city in the same province.
• Vancouver's 244.7 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 390.5 for this service.
• Vancouver's median vet click price of C$12.10 is 147.4% above the country median of C$4.89.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 14.5% on the 12 months before.
• In Vancouver, searches peak in March, about 31.1% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.

Vet businesses in Vancouver

Statistics Canada does not publish a business count for vets in Vancouver at this level, so this page shows none. It publishes counts for Vancouver 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: 3,088,036 (Vancouver (CMA), British Columbia). 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.