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Locksmith ads in Sunderland: £12.84 a click

A Google Ads click for a locksmith in Sunderland costs £12.84 at the search-weighted average (114 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are up 14.2% 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
£12.84
Searches a month
114
Year on year
up 14.2%
Click cost per booked job
£380

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 £380 in clicks at £12.84 a click.

In Sunderland, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at £1.57. The highest click price on this page in Sunderland is urgent at £99.32.

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 £380 in clicks at £12.84 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searches£8.91£264
Near me£7.05£209
Urgent£99.32£2,938
Specific jobs£1.57£46

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

By intent

Where the locksmith searches are in Sunderland

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

Near me are the largest share of counted search volume in Sunderland, at 44.0%.

In Sunderland, urgent has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £99.32 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency locksmith”) costs £99.32 a click, against £8.91 for “locksmith”.

General searches

“locksmith”
Searches a month34, 29.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£8.91

Near me

“locksmith near me”
Searches a month51, 44.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£7.05

Urgent

Highest click price on this page
“emergency locksmith”, “24 hour locksmith”, “locked out of house”, “locked out of car”
Searches a month19, 16.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£99.32
In Sunderland, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“lock change”, “rekey locks”, “lock repair”, “safe opening”, “commercial locksmith”
Searches a month12, 10.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£1.57
In Sunderland, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“key cutting”
Searches a month18
Click price, weighted avgno Google price
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 locksmith ads in Sunderland

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
77.9
Calls or forms
6.3
Booked jobs
2.6
Click cost per booked job
£380

£1,000 at £12.84 a click buys about 77.9 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 6.3 calls and 2.6 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about £380 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every locksmith keyword tracked in Sunderland

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 locksmith keywords in Sunderland are “locksmith near me” (51 searches a month at £7.05 a click), “locksmith” (34 searches a month at £8.91 a click), and “lock change” (8 searches a month at £1.57 a click).

In Sunderland, “emergency locksmith” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £99.32 a click, 530.2% above the £15.76 median click price for locksmith across this country's tracked cities.

In Sunderland, “commercial locksmith” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Sunderland, 4 of the 11 counted locksmith keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
locksmithGeneral searches34£8.91
locksmith near meNear me51£7.05
24 hour locksmithUrgent7no price
emergency locksmithUrgent6£99.32
locked out of houseUrgent4no price
locked out of carUrgent2no price
lock changeSpecific jobs8£1.57
rekey locksSpecific jobs2no price
safe openingSpecific jobs2no price
commercial locksmithSpecific jobs0no price
lock repairSpecific jobs0no price
key cutting
Related, not counted
Related keywords18no price
Ranks and trend

How Sunderland compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, locksmiths searches in Sunderland peaked in October 2022 at 420 and were lowest in July 2025 at 60. Sunderland's single latest tracked month is up 155.6% on the same month a year ago and up 187.5% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Sunderland, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "lock change", up 200.0%.

  • Sunderland is 4th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Sunderland is 23rd of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • Sunderland is 1st of 2 Tyne and Wear cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Sunderland is 2nd of 2 Tyne and Wear cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • For this service, Sunderland sits in Tyne and Wear, which is 15th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 0.2 businesses per 10,000 people across Tyne and Wear).
  • Sunderland's 39.7 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 188.2 for this service.
  • Sunderland's median locksmith click price of £12.84 is 18.5% below the country median of £15.76.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are up 14.2% on the 12 months before.
  • In Sunderland, searches peak in October, about 35.8% above the monthly average, and are lowest in July.
Businesses

Locksmith businesses in Sunderland

The Office for National Statistics counts 5 businesses in this industry in Sunderland (2026), about 0.2 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 287,070 (Sunderland). 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

Locksmith click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 6th of 6 countries by median locksmith 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$2.88311.05
New ZealandUS$3.38199.66
AustraliaUS$6.61320.125
CanadaUS$7.74154.513
United StatesUS$17.43165.250
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$21.13188.225

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 locksmith ads in Sunderland

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a locksmith in Sunderland?

£12.84 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted locksmith search terms in Sunderland (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Sunderland is 4th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a locksmith in Sunderland each month?

114 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, up 14.2% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for locksmiths in Sunderland?

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 £380 in clicks at £12.84 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 Sunderland 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$; they convert to GBP at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 GBP = 1.3406 US$).

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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