Plumber ads in Cork: €4.15 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 €123 in clicks at €4.15 a click.

Cost per booked job in Cork is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Cork 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 plumber searches are in Cork

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 Cork, at 45.7%.

In Cork, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at €4.92 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency plumber”) costs €4.16 a click, against €4.92 for “plumber”.

Plan a month of plumber ads in Cork

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 plumber keyword tracked in Cork

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 plumber keywords in Cork are “plumber” (265 searches a month at €4.92 a click), “plumber near me” (217 searches a month at €3.34 a click), and “emergency plumber” (44 searches a month at €4.16 a click).

In Cork, “gas plumber” is the keyword furthest from the country median: €2.28 a click, 45.1% below the €4.15 median click price for plumber across this country's tracked cities.

In Cork, “hot water system repair” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Cork, 5 of the 12 counted plumber keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Cork compares in Ireland

Over the 48 months tracked, plumbers searches in Cork peaked in October 2025 at 1,550 and were lowest in June 2023 at 370. Cork's single latest tracked month is down 10.7% on the same month a year ago and up 11.1% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Cork, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "emergency plumber", up 55.9%.

• Cork is 3rd of 5 Ireland cities by click price, among the three lowest.
• Cork is 2nd of 5 Ireland cities by monthly searches, among the three highest.
• Cork is the only city in County Cork in this set, so there is no same-county rank.
• Cork's 260.6 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 379.3 for this service.
• Cork's median plumber click price of €4.15 is in line with the country median of €4.15.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are up 4.2% on the 12 months before.
• In Cork, searches peak in October, about 38.4% above the monthly average, and are lowest in June.

Plumber businesses in Cork

The Central Statistics Office does not publish a business count for plumbers in Cork at this level, so this page shows none. It publishes business counts at this level only for broad industry sections, which mix plumbers with other businesses. That is a finding about the published statistics, not about how many plumbers work here.

Population: 222,526 (Cork city and suburbs, Co Cork). Source: CSO Census 2022, city and suburbs population (data.cso.ie).

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

Plumber click prices in 6 countries

Ireland is 1st of 6 countries by median plumber 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.

Rules for plumbers in Ireland

Gas works require a Registered Gas Installer (RGI); general plumbing (non-gas) is not separately licensed.

Questions people ask about plumber ads in Cork

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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.