Pest control ads in Middlesbrough: £1.87 a click

What a booked treatment 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 treatment costs about £55 in clicks at £1.87 a click.

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

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

Where the pest control searches are in Middlesbrough

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 Middlesbrough, at 39.2%.

In Middlesbrough, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £2.83 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency pest control”) costs £1.95 a click, against £1.10 for “pest control”.

Plan a month of pest control ads in Middlesbrough

Put in your own value per treatment and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

Every pest control keyword tracked in Middlesbrough

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 pest control keywords in Middlesbrough are “pest control” (47 searches a month at £1.10 a click), “pest control near me” (42 searches a month at £2.83 a click), and “rodent control” (8 searches a month with no Google click price).

In Middlesbrough, “spider control” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £0.03 a click, 99.2% below the £3.80 median click price for pest control across this country's tracked cities.

In Middlesbrough, “pest inspection” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Middlesbrough, 4 of the 11 counted pest control keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Middlesbrough compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, pest controllers searches in Middlesbrough peaked in January 2026 at 220 and were lowest in October 2023 at 60. Middlesbrough's single latest tracked month is down 21.4% on the same month a year ago and down 15.4% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Middlesbrough, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "emergency pest control", up 100.0%.

• Middlesbrough is 1st of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, the lowest.
• Middlesbrough is 15th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Middlesbrough is the only city in North East England in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
• For this service, Middlesbrough sits in North East England, which is 5th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 0.0 businesses per 10,000 people across North East England).
• Middlesbrough's 77.9 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 57.6 for this service.
• Middlesbrough's median pest control click price of £1.87 is 50.8% below the country median of £3.80.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 18.3% on the 12 months before.
• In Middlesbrough, searches peak in January, about 21.1% above the monthly average, and are lowest in June.

Pest control businesses in Middlesbrough

The Office for National Statistics counts 0 businesses in this industry in Middlesbrough (2026), about 0.0 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 152,795 (Middlesbrough). 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.

Pest control click prices in 6 countries

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

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.

Questions people ask about pest control ads in Middlesbrough

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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.