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House cleaning ads in London: £3.72 a click

A Google Ads click for a house cleaner in London costs £3.72 at the search-weighted average (5,777 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 22.1% on the 12 months before. Prices are in GBP, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
£3.72
Searches a month
5,777
Year on year
down 22.1%
Click cost per booked clean
£110

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 clean costs about £110 in clicks at £3.72 a click.

In London, the lowest click price on this page is near me at £3.51. The highest click price on this page in London is specific jobs at £5.28.

Cost per booked clean

What a booked clean 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 clean costs about £110 in clicks at £3.72 a click.

Cost per booked clean in London is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not London figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked clean
General searches£3.56£105
Near me£3.51£104
Specific jobs£5.28£156

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

By intent

Where the house cleaning searches are in London

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 London, at 56.1%.

In London, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £5.28 a click.

General searches

“house cleaning”, “cleaning services”
Searches a month3,241, 56.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£3.56

Near me

Lowest click price on this page
“house cleaning near me”, “cleaning services near me”
Searches a month1,947, 33.7% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£3.51
In London, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“end of lease cleaning”, “bond cleaning”, “deep cleaning service”, “regular house cleaning”, “spring cleaning service”
Searches a month588, 10.2% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£5.28
In London, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“office cleaning”, “carpet cleaning”
Searches a month15,336
Click price, weighted avg£2.01
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 house cleaning ads in London

Put in your own value per clean 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
268.8
Calls or forms
21.6
Booked cleans
9.1
Click cost per booked clean
£110

£1,000 at £3.72 a click buys about 268.8 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 21.6 calls and 9.1 booked cleans, so each booked clean costs about £110 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every house cleaning keyword tracked in London

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 house cleaning keywords in London are “cleaning services” (2,108 searches a month at £3.54 a click), “cleaning services near me” (1,280 searches a month at £3.66 a click), and “house cleaning” (1,133 searches a month at £3.61 a click).

In London, “end of lease cleaning” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £7.57 a click, 204.0% above the £2.49 median click price for house cleaning across this country's tracked cities.

In London, “bond cleaning” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 15 searches a month.

In London, 9 of the 9 counted house cleaning keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
cleaning servicesGeneral searches2,108£3.54
house cleaningGeneral searches1,133£3.61
cleaning services near meNear me1,280£3.66
house cleaning near meNear me667£3.23
deep cleaning serviceSpecific jobs338£4.47
end of lease cleaningSpecific jobs163£7.57
spring cleaning serviceSpecific jobs44£3.95
regular house cleaningSpecific jobs28£4.68
bond cleaningSpecific jobs15£3.83
carpet cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords14,950£1.77
office cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords386£11.42
Ranks and trend

How London compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, house cleaners searches in London peaked in October 2025 at 12,680 and were lowest in December 2025 at 3,490. London's single latest tracked month is down 23.5% on the same month a year ago and down 38.8% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In London, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "regular house cleaning", down 61.2%.

  • London is 21st of 24 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
  • London is 1st of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, the highest.
  • London is the only city in Greater London in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, London sits in Greater London, which is 19th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, the highest (an average of 7.2 businesses per 10,000 people across Greater London).
  • London's 63.3 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 47.1 for this service.
  • London's median house cleaning click price of £3.72 is 49.4% above the country median of £2.49.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 22.1% on the 12 months before.
  • In London, searches peak in October, about 31.2% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

House cleaning businesses in London

The Office for National Statistics counts 6,615 businesses in this industry in London (2026), about 7.3 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: local units, VAT or PAYE registered, rounded to 5.

Population: 9,122,909 (London). Source: ONS mid-year population estimates via Nomis, dataset NM_2002_1, 2025.

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

6 countries

House cleaning click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 2nd of 6 countries by median house cleaning click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$1.88104.25
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$3.3447.125
CanadaUS$5.2543.813
New ZealandUS$5.3857.46
AustraliaUS$8.75106.725
United StatesUS$11.7740.550

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 house cleaning ads in London

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a house cleaner in London?

£3.72 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted house cleaning search terms in London (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). London is 21st of 24 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a house cleaner in London each month?

5,777 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 22.1% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked clean cost in clicks for house cleaners in London?

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 clean costs about £110 in clicks at £3.72 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: ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis, dataset NM_141_1 (SIC 2007 local units x local authority district). 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 United Kingdom, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to London 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 clean 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$; they convert to GBP at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 GBP = 1.3406 US$).

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, 2026
Open Government Licence v3.0
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

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