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Painter ads in Hamilton: NZ$4.31 a click

A Google Ads click for a painter in Hamilton costs NZ$4.31 at the search-weighted average (244 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 10.7% on the 12 months before. Prices are in NZD, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
NZ$4.31
Searches a month
244
Year on year
down 10.7%
Click cost per booked job
NZ$127

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 NZ$127 in clicks at NZ$4.31 a click.

In Hamilton, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at NZ$3.41. The highest click price on this page in Hamilton is near me at NZ$14.88.

Cost per booked job

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 NZ$127 in clicks at NZ$4.31 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.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searchesNZ$5.82NZ$172
Near meNZ$14.88NZ$440
Specific jobsNZ$3.41NZ$101

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

By intent

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 79.9%.

In Hamilton, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at NZ$14.88 a click.

General searches

“house painter”, “house painting”
Searches a month36, 14.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$5.82

Near me

Highest click price on this page
“painters near me”
Searches a month13, 5.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$14.88
In Hamilton, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“interior painting”, “exterior house painting”, “painting quote”, “commercial painters”, “roof painting”, “fence painting”
Searches a month195, 79.9% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgNZ$3.41
In Hamilton, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“wallpaper removal”, “plastering”
Searches a month137
Click price, weighted avgNZ$0.40
Related keywords sit next to this service but are not counted in the searches or the search-weighted average click price above.
Plan

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.

What the budget buys (worked example)

Clicks a month
232.0
Calls or forms
18.7
Booked jobs
7.8
Click cost per booked job
NZ$127

NZ$1,000 at NZ$4.31 a click buys about 232.0 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 18.7 calls and 7.8 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about NZ$127 in clicks.

Put in your value per job and your margin to see whether this pays back.

Keywords

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 “fence painting” (88 searches a month at NZ$0.59 a click), “roof painting” (59 searches a month at NZ$2.97 a click), and “house painting” (26 searches a month at NZ$5.82 a click).

In Hamilton, “commercial painters” is the keyword furthest from the country median: NZ$36.11 a click, 489.1% above the NZ$6.13 median click price for painter across this country's tracked cities.

In Hamilton, “commercial painters” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 7 searches a month.

In Hamilton, 8 of the 9 counted painter keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
house paintingGeneral searches26NZ$5.82
house painterGeneral searches10no price
painters near meNear me13NZ$14.88
fence paintingSpecific jobs88NZ$0.59
roof paintingSpecific jobs59NZ$2.97
interior paintingSpecific jobs22NZ$1.37
exterior house paintingSpecific jobs11NZ$4.91
painting quoteSpecific jobs8NZ$12.50
commercial paintersSpecific jobs7NZ$36.11
plastering
Related, not counted
Related keywords127NZ$0.09
wallpaper removal
Related, not counted
Related keywords10NZ$4.34
Ranks and trend

How Hamilton compares in New Zealand

Over the 48 months tracked, painters searches in Hamilton peaked in January 2025 at 430 and were lowest in September 2022 at 130. Hamilton's single latest tracked month is up 14.3% on the same month a year ago and up 4.3% 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", down 52.7%.

  • Hamilton is 1st of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Hamilton is 4th of 6 New Zealand cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • Hamilton is the only city in the Waikato region in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Hamilton sits in Waikato, which is 2nd of 6 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 9.8 businesses per 10,000 people across Waikato).
  • Hamilton's 128.6 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 115.4 for this service.
  • Hamilton's median painter click price of NZ$4.31 is 29.7% below the country median of NZ$6.13.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 10.7% on the 12 months before.
  • In Hamilton, searches peak in January, about 35.2% above the monthly average, and are lowest in June.
Businesses

Painter businesses in Hamilton

Stats NZ counts 186 businesses in this industry in Hamilton (February 2025), about 9.8 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: geographic units, randomly rounded to base 3.

Population: 189,700 (Hamilton). Source: Stats NZ subnational population estimates at 30 June, by urban area.

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

6 countries

Painter click prices in 6 countries

New Zealand is 3rd of 6 countries by median painter click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
United KingdomUS$0.9050.925
IrelandUS$1.5191.95
New Zealand
this page's country
US$3.53115.46
AustraliaUS$5.7161.425
CanadaUS$7.1231.813
United StatesUS$10.0922.550

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.

FAQ

Questions people ask about painter ads in Hamilton

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a painter in Hamilton?

NZ$4.31 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted painter search terms in Hamilton (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Hamilton is 1st of 6 New Zealand cities by click price, the lowest.

How many people search for a painter in Hamilton each month?

244 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 10.7% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for painters in Hamilton?

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about NZ$127 in clicks at NZ$4.31 a click.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: Stats NZ: Business Demography Statistics: Enterprises by industry 2025 -- via Figure.NZ chart mirror. Click prices convert from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 2026-09 average. Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.

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Method

Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for New Zealand, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Hamilton with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.

Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.

Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.

Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.

Cost per booked job is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.

DataForSEO reports click prices in US$; they convert to NZD at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 NZD = 0.5760 US$).

The tags “Lowest click price on this page” and “Highest click price on this page” rank the intent groups on this page by click price. They are rankings, not verdicts.

Sources

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.

DatasetLicence
DataForSEO, retrieved 13 October 2026
DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API)
US benchmark lead rate (calls and forms), Home & Home Improvement
Published benchmark, cited
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, February 2025
CC BY 4.0, Stats NZ
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

Related: Painter in Auckland, Painter in Christchurch, Painter in Wellington, Painter across New Zealand, All services in Hamilton.

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