Dog groomer ads in Richmond: US$1.58 a click

What a booked groom costs in clicks

There is a sourced lead rate for dog groomer (16.22% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Animals & Pets) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked groom. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

Cost per booked groom in Richmond is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Richmond 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 dog groomer searches are in Richmond

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 Richmond, at 63.4%.

In Richmond, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$1.64 a click.

Plan a month of dog groomer ads in Richmond

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

Every dog groomer keyword tracked in Richmond

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 dog groomer keywords in Richmond are “dog groomer near me” (502 searches a month at US$1.65 a click), “dog grooming near me” (502 searches a month at US$1.65 a click), and “dog groomer” (236 searches a month at US$1.47 a click).

In Richmond, “dog grooming prices” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$0.29 a click, 88.4% below the US$2.50 median click price for dog groomer across this country's tracked cities.

In Richmond, “dog grooming prices” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 9 searches a month.

In Richmond, 8 of the 11 counted dog groomer keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Richmond compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, dog groomers searches in Richmond peaked in August 2023 at 4,380 and were lowest in January 2026 at 1,330. Richmond's single latest tracked month is down 29.2% on the same month a year ago and down 39.5% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Richmond, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "dog grooming prices", down 50.0%.

• Richmond is 4th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
• Richmond is 48th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
• Richmond is 1st of 2 Virginia cities by click price, the lowest.
• Richmond is 2nd of 2 Virginia cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
• For this service, Richmond sits in Virginia, which is 22nd of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 0.9 businesses per 10,000 people across Virginia).
• Richmond's 115.6 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 159.9 for this service.
• Richmond's median dog groomer click price of US$1.58 is 36.8% below the country median of US$2.50.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 30.9% on the 12 months before.
• In Richmond, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, November, is not a strong peak.

Dog groomer businesses in Richmond

The US Census Bureau counts 124 businesses in this industry in Richmond, VA (2023), about 0.9 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.

Population: 1,389,338 (Richmond, VA). Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP), MSA/micropolitan estimates, vintage 2023.

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

Dog groomer click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median dog groomer 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.

Rules for dog groomers in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

Questions people ask about dog groomer ads in Richmond

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Data and sources

Search data pulled October 13, 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.