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Removalist ads in Brisbane, by opportunity

A Google Ads click for a removalist in Brisbane costs A$25.24 at the median (3,899 searches a month, pulled October 2026, Google Ads via DataForSEO). No margin is published for removalists here, so the payback figures need your own. No niche clears the Quick cash, Big tickets or Client book tests on these numbers, so the plan below works niche by niche.

The 10-second read
Worked example: move values are from published sources; call and booking rates are US averages. Put in your own numbers below.

No margin is published for removalists here, so the payback figures need your own.

Dot colour: a niche pays back within the US benchmark call rate (green), needs up to twice that call rate (amber), or needs more than twice that call rate (red); a red niche only reads "needs repeat work or a bigger move" when its break-even call rate is over 100%. Teal means no urgent-intent benchmark exists for this niche, so compare the break-even rate with your own call rate instead.

Fresh
Pulled 2026-10-12. Next refresh January 2027.
Prices partial
11 of 12 keywords have a Google price.
Volumes steadier
6 of 12 keywords flagged volatile.
Keywords tracked
12 keywords tracked; 1 have no Google price.
The niches

Where the money is, by niche

No niche clears a payback test on these numbers, so every niche is shown together. Figures use Brisbane click prices and the move rates in the plan below; change the rates there and these update.

Every niche Put in your rates
No niche clears the payback tests yet
Local house move - small (1-2 bed), Local house move - large (3-4+ bed), Interstate move, Office / commercial move, Piano / specialty item move, Packing service, General and near me
Searches a month3,889, 100% of all core keywords
Figures for Local house move - small (1-2 bed), the strongest here
Local house move - small (1-2 bed) A$8.67 (strongest) · Local house move - large (3-4+ bed) A$9.81 · Interstate move A$28.77 · Office / commercial move A$21.76 · Piano / specialty item move A$6.54 · Packing service A$21.39 · General and near me A$24.06
Local house move - small (1-2 bed): Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Local house move - large (3-4+ bed): Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Interstate move: Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Office / commercial move: No price source yet: put in yours · None confidence (move value: None)
Piano / specialty item move: Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Packing service: Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
General and near me: Not proven on these numbers · None confidence (margin: None)
Cost per click · Medium confidenceA$8.67
Typical moveA$580
Profit on the moveput in yours
Click cost per moveput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Fits if you can put in your own move value, call rate and margin.
Needs your own numbers in the plan below.
Plan Every niche
Shared pool
General and near me: 10 searches a month (0% of all core keywords) (A$25.24 is the typical cost per click across all removalist keywords)
Most of these searches don't say what the move is, so your ad copy and landing page decide which segment they land in. 22.1% of all removalist searches here say 'near me', so your Google Business Profile carries as much weight as the ad.
Plan a segment

Every niche: Local house move - small (1-2 bed)

No niche clears the payback tests yet. Local house move - small (1-2 bed) covers 'house removalists' and 'man with a van': 386 searches a month at A$8.67 a click.

Niche to plan
Move rates for Local house move - small (1-2 bed)

What A$1,000 a month buys in Every niche (worked example)

0.0 clicks0.0 calls0.0 moves

Enter a budget and the move rates to see what this segment buys.

Keywords in Every niche

removalist1,567 a month, A$25.24
General and near me. Close to the typical click here.
removalists near me863 a month, A$23.23
General and near me. Close to the typical click here.
interstate removalists447 a month, A$48.87
Interstate move. Above the typical click here.
furniture removalists298 a month, A$21.39
Packing service. Below the typical click here.
moving company253 a month, A$31.65
General and near me. Above the typical click here.
house removalists240 a month, A$9.81
Local house move - small (1-2 bed). Below the typical click here.
man with a van146 a month, A$10.72
Local house move - small (1-2 bed). Below the typical click here.
piano removalists60 a month, A$9.84
Piano / specialty item move. Below the typical click here.
office removalists15 a month, A$29.36
Office / commercial move. Above the typical click here.

The shared pool keywords, 'removalist packing service', can feed any segment. See the full keyword table.

Compare

Every niche, grouped by segment

Tap Plan on a niche to plan it. Use Sort to re-order. Green pays back within the US benchmark call rate, amber needs up to twice that, red needs more.

Sort
General and near meNot proven on these numbers
Searches a month2,683
Cost per clickA$24.06
Typical moveA$1,900
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per moveput in yours
Profit on the moveput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Interstate moveNot proven on these numbers
Searches a month447
Cost per clickA$28.77
Typical moveA$5,000
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per moveput in yours
Profit on the moveput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Local house move - small (1-2 bed)Not proven on these numbers
Searches a month386
Cost per clickA$8.67
Typical moveA$580
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per moveput in yours
Profit on the moveput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Packing serviceNot proven on these numbers
Searches a month298
Cost per clickA$21.39
Typical moveA$550
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per moveput in yours
Profit on the moveput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Local house move - large (3-4+ bed)Not proven on these numbers
Searches a month240
Cost per clickA$9.81
Typical moveA$1,300
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per moveput in yours
Profit on the moveput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Piano / specialty item moveNot proven on these numbers
Searches a month60
Cost per clickA$6.54
Typical moveA$400
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per moveput in yours
Profit on the moveput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Office / commercial moveNo price source yet: put in yours
Searches a month15
Cost per clickA$21.76
Typical moveput in yours
ConfidenceNone
Click cost per moveput in yours
Profit on the moveput in yours
Pays back ifput in yours
Google data+
Searches and click prices, Brisbane, pulled 2026-10-12.
Published price guides+
Typical move sizes from published Australian sources: local house move - small (1-2 bed), local house move - large (3-4+ bed), interstate move, piano / specialty item move, packing service and general and near me (retrieved October 2026). No price source yet for office / commercial move: put in yours.
US benchmarks+
8.05% of removalist clicks convert (US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026); 42% of calls book (US benchmark, ServiceTitan). No Australian equivalent published.
Assumptions+
NicheMove value (default)Clicks that callCalls that bookMargin per extra moveRepeatConfidence
Local house move - small (1-2 bed)A$5808.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Local house move - large (3-4+ bed)A$1,3008.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Interstate moveA$5,0008.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Office / commercial moveput in yours8.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Piano / specialty item moveA$4008.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Packing serviceA$5508.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
General and near meA$1,9008.05% (LocaliQ 2026 Search Advertising Benchmarks - Home & Home Improvement)42% (ServiceTitan - Typical call-booking rate for trades)put in yoursput in yoursNone
Clicks to a move = clicks that call x calls that book. Every figure above is editable in the plan; repeat moves per customer are left blank, put in yours.
Keywords

Keyword table

Two keywords carry more than half of the searches. Each keyword is tagged with the segment its niche belongs to; the shared pool can feed any of them. Google rounds search volumes and estimates prices; treat small differences as noise. "Top-of-page bid, low to high" is Google Ads' own estimate of what you would need to bid to show near the top of the results page, not a price anyone has paid.

Type
12 of 12 keywords, 3,923 searches a month
Sort
removalistNot proven on these numbers
General and near me. Close to the typical click here.
Searches a month1,567
Cost per click (A$)A$25.24
Cost per click (US$)US$17.96
Competition index89
TypeGeneric
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$10.64 to A$27.58
removalists near meNot proven on these numbers
General and near me. Close to the typical click here.
Searches a month863
Cost per click (A$)A$23.23
Cost per click (US$)US$16.53
Competition index94
TypeNear me
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$10.23 to A$25.89
interstate removalistsNot proven on these numbers
Interstate move. Above the typical click here.
Searches a month447
Cost per click (A$)A$48.87
Cost per click (US$)US$34.77
Competition index100
TypeService
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$16.88 to A$40.65
furniture removalistsNot proven on these numbers
Packing service. Below the typical click here.
Searches a month298
Cost per click (A$)A$21.39
Cost per click (US$)US$15.22
Competition index80
TypeService
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$8.05 to A$21.62
moving companyNot proven on these numbers
General and near me. Above the typical click here.
Searches a month253
Cost per click (A$)A$31.65
Cost per click (US$)US$22.52
Competition index88
TypeGeneric
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$11.60 to A$27.52
house removalistsNot proven on these numbers
Local house move - small (1-2 bed). Below the typical click here.
Searches a month240
Cost per click (A$)A$9.81
Cost per click (US$)US$6.98
Competition index64
TypeService
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$3.18 to A$13.80
man with a vanNot proven on these numbers
Local house move - small (1-2 bed). Below the typical click here.
Searches a month146
Cost per click (A$)A$10.72
Cost per click (US$)US$7.63
Competition index93
TypeService
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$3.25 to A$10.32
piano removalistsNot proven on these numbers
Piano / specialty item move. Below the typical click here.
Searches a month60
Cost per click (A$)A$9.84
Cost per click (US$)US$7.00
Competition index94
TypeService
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$3.02 to A$10.06
office removalistsNo price source yet
Office / commercial move. Above the typical click here.
Searches a month15
Cost per click (A$)A$29.36
Cost per click (US$)US$20.89
Competition index98
TypeService
VolatileYes
Top-of-page bid, low to highA$15.71 to A$27.81
backloading removalistsShared pool
General search, mixed intent. Below the typical click here.
Searches a month14
Cost per click (A$)A$8.97
Cost per click (US$)US$6.38
Competition indexno data
TypeAdjacent
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highno data
removalist packing serviceShared pool
General search, mixed intent. Below the typical click here.
Searches a month10
Cost per click (A$)A$16.96
Cost per click (US$)US$12.07
Competition index100
TypeService
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highno data
storage removalistsShared pool
General search, mixed intent. No price from Google; cap it and read your own cost per click.
Searches a month10
Cost per click (A$)no data
Cost per click (US$)no data
Competition indexno data
TypeAdjacent
VolatileNo
Top-of-page bid, low to highno data
Market backdrop

The market every segment shares

These numbers don't pick a segment for you. They set the size of the prize and the price of entry for all of them.

Market size
Large
3,899 searches a month, 3rd of 25 cities by monthly searches, among the three most
Momentum
Falling
-24.7% vs prior 12 months; job ads -1.4%
Click cost
Mid
A$25.24 typical, 14th of 25 cities by median cost per click, mid-table
Rivals per head
Average
42.05 removalist businesses per 10,000 people in Queensland; 4th of 8 states and territories by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table
Searches per business
Thin
0.3 a month per business (estimate).
Brisbane in Qld

Removalist ads across 8 Qld cities

5th of 8 QLD cities by median cost per click, mid-table. 1st of 8 QLD cities by monthly searches, the most.

City Cost per click (A$, median) Searches a month Searches per 10,000 people
Brisbane A$25.24 3,899 13.8
Gold Coast A$29.14 1,065 14.0
Sunshine Coast A$26.30 365 8.6
Townsville A$29.63 335 17.6
Cairns A$18.52 202 12.3
Toowoomba A$19.66 129 8.4
Mackay A$19.68 93 10.4
Rockhampton A$11.81 72 8.6

Searches per 10,000 people use each city's own population (ABS 2025). Bold is Brisbane.

Where Brisbane sits

Removalist ads across the 25 cities

Wagga Wagga has the dearest clicks (A$34.11) and Rockhampton the cheapest (A$11.81). Brisbane is 14th of 25 cities by median cost per click, mid-table, and 3rd of 25 cities by monthly searches, among the three most.

City Cost per click (A$, median) Searches a month Change vs last year
Wagga Wagga
34
62
-15.9%
Newcastle
32
476
-7.5%
Bendigo
30
83
-11.5%
Townsville
30
335
-6.5%
Gold Coast
29
1,065
-25.8%
Adelaide
29
1,747
-18.3%
Sydney
28
9,708
-25.8%
Melbourne
28
12,496
-19.2%
Darwin
27
117
-20.5%
Sunshine Coast
26
365
-19.2%
Perth
26
2,546
-27.5%
Brisbane
25
3,899
-24.7%
Canberra
23
528
-30.8%
Bunbury
23
61
-5.2%
Wollongong
22
348
-13.3%
Central Coast
21
478
-17.5%
Mackay
20
93
-18.8%
Toowoomba
20
129
-15.3%
Hobart
19
199
-30.9%
Geelong
19
199
-10.5%
Cairns
19
202
-6.6%
Launceston
18
119
-43.0%
Albury-Wodonga
17
90
0.0%
Ballarat
16
113
-14.5%
Rockhampton
12
72
-14.7%

Sorted by cost per click, dearest first. The number in each cell is the value and the bar behind it shows its size. Prices from A$10 up are rounded to the dollar; prices under A$10 show cents; a city with no Google price sits at the bottom. Amber bars are falls in change vs last year. A dark dot marks a capital city. Brisbane is in bold with darker bars.

Competition

Competition in Queensland

Business counts and job ads are published by state, not by city, so this section shows Queensland figures for removalists; every Qld city in this set shares them.

The business count uses ANZSIC 4610 Road Freight Transport and job ads use ANZSCO 7331 Truck Drivers, the closest published codes; they cover more businesses than removalists alone.

Businesses, June 2025
23,840
New entries, FY2025
4,428
Exits, FY2025
3,873
Both falling, year on year
-1.4% job ads
-24.7% searches

Removalist job ads in Qld and removalist searches in Brisbane, each against the year before.

Removalist businesses per 10,000 people
ACT
20.61
NT
21.21
Tas
27.99
Qld
42.05
SA
42.71
NSW
44.58
WA
45.06
Vic
57.91

Qld is 4th of 8 states and territories by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table.

Estimate: searches per business, Brisbane: 0.3 a month (assumes even business density across Queensland; Brisbane holds 50.0% of Queensland's population).

Demand

Four years of removalist searches in Brisbane

Removalist searches in Brisbane are down 24.7% year on year, averaging 3,899 a month. The last 12 months are in dark blue.

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023
56,010
Sep 2023 to Aug 2024
62,050
Sep 2024 to Aug 2025
62,140
Sep 2025 to Aug 2026
46,790

Total searches in each 12-month block.

Seasons

Seasonality

J F M A M J J A S O N D

Searches are fairly even through the year; January is the busiest month, 12.8% above the average month.

Rules

Advertising rules

Sixty Steps found no national advertising code specific to removalists; check any licence-display rule with your own state regulator before relying on this page. For general advertising and consumer-law obligations, see the ACCC advertising and selling guide.

FAQ

Questions people ask about removalist ads in Brisbane

What does a Google Ads click cost for a removalist in Brisbane?

A$25.24 a click is the typical (median) cost across all removalist search terms in Brisbane (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 2026-10-12). That is 14th of 25 cities by median cost per click, mid-table.

How many people search for a removalist in Brisbane each month?

3,899 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 24.7% year on year (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 2026-10-12).

Which removalist move pays back fastest on Google Ads in Brisbane?

No margin is published for removalists here, so the payback figures need your own. Put in your own numbers in the planner to see which pays back.

How does Brisbane compare with other Qld cities for removalist ads?

Brisbane is 5th of 8 QLD cities by median cost per click, mid-table, and 1st of 8 QLD cities by monthly searches, the most (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 2026-10-12).

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Google Ads search volume and cost per click from DataForSEO (pulled 2026-10-12); move values from published Australian sources where one exists; click-to-call and call-to-book rates from US industry benchmarks; business counts from the ABS. Full sources are listed at the bottom of this page.

The wider set

Where this page sits

This is one of 541 pages: 22 services across 25 cities, all listed on the data hub. Every page uses the same keyword method, pull date and formulas, so figures compare directly.

Service
Home services
Removalist in Brisbane, this page
Other services in Brisbane
Place
Australia, 25 cities
Queensland, 8 cities in this set
Removalist in the other 24 cities

Business counts and job ads are published by state, so the Qld figures on this page cover the whole state, not just Brisbane; search volumes and click prices are pulled for Brisbane itself.

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Method

Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service, tagged by intent (service, generic, near me and adjacent), targeted to each city using Google Ads city-level location codes, not a text match.

Headline monthly searches is the mean of the last 12 months of the core keyword set; the full 48-month series is shown on the chart.

Year-on-year change is total core-keyword searches in the last 12 months against the 12 months before that, for Brisbane's own totals (the two most recent 12-month blocks in the demand table).

Headline cost per click is the volume-weighted median of each keyword's mean cost per click over the core set, called "typical cost per click (median)" throughout. The top-of-page bid is shown separately with its own label; the highest single-keyword cost per click is never the headline.

A keyword is flagged Volatile when its 24-month maximum is 2.5 times its minimum or more, or when a single month makes up 40% or more of its 12-month total. Volatile keywords stay in the totals.

Prices convert from Google Ads US dollars to Australian dollars at the US Federal Reserve's H.10 monthly average rate for September 2026 (1 AUD = 0.7115 USD). Ranks compare cost per click (cheapest to dearest) and monthly searches (most to fewest) across the 25 cities with data for this service and across the cities in the same state, and business density (fewest to most) across 8 states and territories; a trend is only stated when the change is 5% or more.

Segments: each niche is tagged by how its own numbers pay back. Quick cash clears its ad cost on the first move; Big tickets have the largest profit per move in the service; Client book pays back over 12 months of repeat visits. A niche can carry up to two tags, or none ("not proven on these numbers") if neither test clears the bar. A niche with no published price carries "No price source yet" and asks you to put in yours. General and near-me keywords sit in a shared pool.

Confidence: each niche carries a confidence level (High/Medium/Low/None) for its weakest input among search volume, click price, move value and margin. High means sourced for this exact city or an official AU figure. Medium means AU-sourced but national or industry-level. Low means a single weak source, an overseas figure or a US benchmark. None means no sourced figure; put in your own.

The modelled figure on this page is "searches per business" in the competition section, which assumes business density is even within a state, so a city's share of state businesses is approximated by its share of state population; it is the only number tagged "(estimate)". The segment cards, niche table and plan are a worked example using example move rates you can replace with your own. Every other figure is a direct read from the source cited in the data section.

Data and sources

Next refresh planned January 2027. Download the monthly data as CSV.

DatasetLicence
DataForSEO Google Ads search volume
DataForSEO, retrieved 2026-10-12
DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API licence)
ABS Counts of Australian Businesses (CABEE)
Australian Bureau of Statistics
CC BY 4.0
ABS Estimated Resident Population
Australian Bureau of Statistics
CC BY 4.0
JSA Internet Vacancy Index, ANZSCO 7331
Jobs and Skills Australia
CC BY 4.0 International
US Federal Reserve H.10 Foreign Exchange Rates
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Public domain (US government work)

Search data pulled 2026-10-12 from Google Ads via DataForSEO. Prices in A$ at the US Federal Reserve September 2026 average (1 AUD = 0.7115 USD). Method, sources and CSV.

Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you'll pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.

About this data

Search volumes and click prices are licensed from DataForSEO (Google Ads data) and can't be re-pulled without a paid account. Business counts, job ads and exchange rates are open government data you can download yourself. Published by Sixty Steps, which runs ad accounts for local businesses.

Related: Removalist in Gold Coast, Removalist in Sunshine Coast, Removalist in Townsville, Removalist across Australia.

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