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Mechanic ads in Stoke-on-Trent: £1.75 a click

A Google Ads click for a mechanic in Stoke-on-Trent costs £1.75 at the search-weighted average (682 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 20.0% 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
£1.75
Searches a month
682
Year on year
down 20.0%
Click cost per booked job
put in your rates

There is a sourced lead rate for mechanic (15.51% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Automotive - Repair, Service & Parts) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked job. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

In Stoke-on-Trent, the lowest click price on this page is near me at £0.77. The highest click price on this page in Stoke-on-Trent is general searches at £3.06.

Cost per booked job

What a booked job costs in clicks

There is a sourced lead rate for mechanic (15.51% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Automotive - Repair, Service & Parts) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked job. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searches£3.06put in your rates
Near me£0.77put in your rates
Specific jobs£2.63put in your rates

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

By intent

Where the mechanic searches are in Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent, at 52.7%.

In Stoke-on-Trent, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £3.06 a click.

General searches

Highest click price on this page
“mechanic”, “car mechanic”
Searches a month192, 28.2% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£3.06
In Stoke-on-Trent, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Near me

Lowest click price on this page
“mechanic near me”, “car mechanic near me”
Searches a month359, 52.7% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£0.77
In Stoke-on-Trent, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Urgent

“emergency mobile mechanic”, “car won't start”
Searches a month11, 1.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price

Specific jobs

“car service”, “brake repair”, “car battery replacement”
Searches a month119, 17.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£2.63

Related keywords

Not counted
“tyre fitting”
Searches a month18
Click price, weighted avg£1.81
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 mechanic ads in Stoke-on-Trent

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
571.4
Calls or forms
88.6
Booked jobs
put in yours
Click cost per booked job
put in yours

£1,000 at £1.75 a click buys about 571.4 clicks a month.

Put in your call and booking rates to see how many booked jobs this buys.

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

Keywords

Every mechanic keyword tracked in Stoke-on-Trent

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 mechanic keywords in Stoke-on-Trent are “mechanic near me” (269 searches a month at £0.76 a click), “mechanic” (140 searches a month at £3.55 a click), and “car mechanic near me” (90 searches a month at £0.81 a click).

In Stoke-on-Trent, “mechanic” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £3.55 a click, 102.9% above the £1.75 median click price for mechanic across this country's tracked cities.

In Stoke-on-Trent, “emergency mobile mechanic” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 1 search a month.

In Stoke-on-Trent, 6 of the 9 counted mechanic keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
mechanicGeneral searches140£3.55
car mechanicGeneral searches52£1.75
mechanic near meNear me269£0.76
car mechanic near meNear me90£0.81
car won't startUrgent10no price
emergency mobile mechanicUrgent1no price
car serviceSpecific jobs82£3.21
car battery replacementSpecific jobs32£1.15
brake repairSpecific jobs5no price
tyre fitting
Related, not counted
Related keywords18£1.81
Ranks and trend

How Stoke-on-Trent compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, mechanics searches in Stoke-on-Trent peaked in March 2025 at 1,140 and were lowest in April 2023 at 200. Stoke-on-Trent's single latest tracked month is down 25.3% on the same month a year ago and down 32.2% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Stoke-on-Trent, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "emergency mobile mechanic", down 50.0%.

  • Stoke-on-Trent is 13th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Stoke-on-Trent is 16th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Stoke-on-Trent is 2nd of 3 West Midlands cities by click price, among the three lowest.
  • Stoke-on-Trent is 3rd of 3 West Midlands cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • For this service, Stoke-on-Trent sits in West Midlands, which is 18th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three highest (an average of 8.5 businesses per 10,000 people across West Midlands).
  • Stoke-on-Trent's 250.5 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 242.1 for this service.
  • Stoke-on-Trent's median mechanic click price of £1.75 is in line with the country median of £1.75.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 20.0% on the 12 months before.
  • In Stoke-on-Trent, searches peak in January, about 18.0% above the monthly average, and are lowest in April.
Businesses

Mechanic businesses in Stoke-on-Trent

The Office for National Statistics counts 285 businesses in this industry in Stoke-on-Trent (2026), about 10.5 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 272,282 (Stoke-on-Trent). 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

Mechanic click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 4th of 6 countries by median mechanic 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$0.84811.55
New ZealandUS$1.74697.56
CanadaUS$2.21407.113
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$2.35242.125
AustraliaUS$2.58854.425
United StatesUS$5.46194.250

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

Rules for mechanics in the United Kingdom

Regulator or register: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).

DVSA regulates MOT testing stations; general mechanics and garages are not separately licensed.

FAQ

Questions people ask about mechanic ads in Stoke-on-Trent

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a mechanic in Stoke-on-Trent?

£1.75 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted mechanic search terms in Stoke-on-Trent (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Stoke-on-Trent is 13th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a mechanic in Stoke-on-Trent each month?

682 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 20.0% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for mechanics in Stoke-on-Trent?

There is a sourced lead rate for mechanic (15.51% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Automotive - Repair, Service & Parts) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked job. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

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). 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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), Automotive - Repair, Service & Parts
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, 2026
Open Government Licence v3.0
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

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