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Vet ads in Brighton and Hove: £4.24 a click

A Google Ads click for a vet in Brighton and Hove costs £4.24 at the search-weighted average (1,221 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 9.8% 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
£4.24
Searches a month
1,221
Year on year
down 9.8%
Click cost per booked appointment
£119

At a lead rate of 16.22% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Animals & Pets) and a booking rate of 22% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Patient Prism - Veterinary Patient Access Report 2025), a booked appointment costs about £119 in clicks at £4.24 a click.

In Brighton and Hove, the lowest click price on this page is urgent at £4.04. The highest click price on this page in Brighton and Hove is specific jobs at £5.78.

Cost per booked appointment

What a booked appointment costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 16.22% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Animals & Pets) and a booking rate of 22% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Patient Prism - Veterinary Patient Access Report 2025), a booked appointment costs about £119 in clicks at £4.24 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked appointment
General searches£4.52£127
Near me£4.10£115
Urgent£4.04£113
Specific jobs£5.78£162

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

By intent

Where the vet searches are in Brighton and Hove

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 Brighton and Hove, at 63.6%.

In Brighton and Hove, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £5.78 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency vet”) costs £4.04 a click, against £4.52 for “vet”.

General searches

“vet”, “veterinary clinic”, “vet clinic”
Searches a month343, 28.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£4.52

Near me

“vet near me”
Searches a month776, 63.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£4.10

Urgent

Lowest click price on this page
“emergency vet”, “24 hour vet”
Searches a month44, 3.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£4.04
In Brighton and Hove, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“pet vaccination”, “dog vaccination”, “puppy vaccination”, “cat vet”, “dog desexing”, “animal hospital”
Searches a month58, 4.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£5.78
In Brighton and Hove, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.
Plan

Plan a month of vet ads in Brighton and Hove

Put in your own value per appointment 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
235.8
Calls or forms
38.3
Booked appointments
8.4
Click cost per booked appointment
£119

£1,000 at £4.24 a click buys about 235.8 clicks a month.

If 16.22% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 22% of those calls, that is about 38.3 calls and 8.4 booked appointments, so each booked appointment costs about £119 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every vet keyword tracked in Brighton and Hove

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 vet keywords in Brighton and Hove are “vet near me” (776 searches a month at £4.10 a click), “vet” (289 searches a month at £4.52 a click), and “emergency vet” (34 searches a month at £4.04 a click).

In Brighton and Hove, “cat vet” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £6.77 a click, 169.7% above the £2.51 median click price for vet across this country's tracked cities.

In Brighton and Hove, “dog desexing” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Brighton and Hove, 5 of the 12 counted vet keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
vetGeneral searches289£4.52
vet clinicGeneral searches27no price
veterinary clinicGeneral searches27no price
vet near meNear me776£4.10
emergency vetUrgent34£4.04
24 hour vetUrgent10no price
animal hospitalSpecific jobs24no price
puppy vaccinationSpecific jobs12£4.95
cat vetSpecific jobs10£6.77
dog vaccinationSpecific jobs10no price
pet vaccinationSpecific jobs2no price
dog desexingSpecific jobs0no price
Ranks and trend

How Brighton and Hove compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, vets searches in Brighton and Hove peaked in July 2024 at 1,740 and were lowest in April 2023 at 880. Brighton and Hove's single latest tracked month is down 4.7% on the same month a year ago and up 20.5% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Brighton and Hove, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "vet clinic", up 128.6%.

  • Brighton and Hove is 24th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, among the three highest.
  • Brighton and Hove is 10th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Brighton and Hove is 2nd of 2 South East England cities by click price, the highest.
  • Brighton and Hove is 1st of 2 South East England cities by monthly searches, the highest.
  • For this service, Brighton and Hove sits in South East England, which is 16th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 0.8 businesses per 10,000 people across South East England).
  • Brighton and Hove's 429.7 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 333.0 for this service.
  • Brighton and Hove's median vet click price of £4.24 is 68.9% above the country median of £2.51.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 9.8% on the 12 months before.
  • In Brighton and Hove, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, July, is not a strong peak.
Businesses

Vet businesses in Brighton and Hove

The Office for National Statistics counts 30 businesses in this industry in Brighton and Hove (2026), about 1.1 for every 10,000 people.

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

Population: 284,170 (Brighton and Hove). 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

Vet click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 4th of 6 countries by median vet 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$0.61520.55
New ZealandUS$1.92493.26
AustraliaUS$2.47704.125
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$3.36333.025
CanadaUS$3.50390.513
United StatesUS$9.54244.650

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 vets in the United Kingdom

Regulator or register: Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).

FAQ

Questions people ask about vet ads in Brighton and Hove

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a vet in Brighton and Hove?

£4.24 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted vet search terms in Brighton and Hove (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Brighton and Hove is 24th of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, among the three highest.

How many people search for a vet in Brighton and Hove each month?

1,221 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 9.8% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked appointment cost in clicks for vets in Brighton and Hove?

At a lead rate of 16.22% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Animals & Pets) and a booking rate of 22.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, Patient Prism - Veterinary Patient Access Report 2025), a booked appointment costs about £119 in clicks at £4.24 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 Brighton and Hove 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 appointment 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), Animals & Pets
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

Related: Vet in Reading, Vet in London, Vet in Birmingham, Vet across United Kingdom, All services in Brighton and Hove.

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