Electrician ads in Richmond: US$19.16 a click
A Google Ads click for an electrician in Richmond costs US$19.16 at the search-weighted average (930 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 25.2% on the 12 months before.
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 US$567 in clicks at US$19.16 a click.
In Richmond, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at US$2.42. The highest click price on this page in Richmond is near me at US$27.01.
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 US$567 in clicks at US$19.16 a click.
Cost per booked job 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.
| Intent group | Click price | Per booked job |
|---|---|---|
| General searches | US$13.48 | US$399 |
| Near me | US$27.01 | US$799 |
| Urgent | US$10.00 | US$296 |
| Specific jobs | US$2.42 | US$72 |
Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.
Where the electrician 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.
General searches are the largest share of counted search volume in Richmond, at 44.8%.
In Richmond, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$27.01 a click.
An urgent search (“emergency electrician”) costs US$10.00 a click, against US$13.48 for “electrician”.
General searches
Near me
Highest click price on this pageUrgent
Specific jobs
Lowest click price on this pageRelated keywords
Not countedPlan a month of electrician ads in Richmond
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)
US$1,000 at US$19.16 a click buys about 52.2 clicks a month.
If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 4.2 calls and 1.8 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about US$567 in clicks.
Put in your value per job and your margin to see whether this pays back.
Every electrician 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 electrician keywords in Richmond are “electrician” (418 searches a month at US$13.48 a click), “electrician near me” (374 searches a month at US$27.01 a click), and “electrical contractor” (45 searches a month with no Google click price).
In Richmond, “ceiling fan installation” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$2.42 a click, 88.5% below the US$20.99 median click price for electrician across this country's tracked cities.
In Richmond, “switchboard upgrade” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.
In Richmond, 4 of the 10 counted electrician keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.
| Keyword | Intent | Searches | Click |
|---|---|---|---|
| electrician | General searches | 418 | US$13.48 |
| electrician near me | Near me | 374 | US$27.01 |
| emergency electrician | Urgent | 21 | US$10.00 |
| 24 hour electrician | Urgent | 8 | no price |
| electrical contractor | Specific jobs | 45 | no price |
| ceiling fan installation | Specific jobs | 22 | US$2.42 |
| ev charger installation | Specific jobs | 18 | no price |
| smoke alarm installation | Specific jobs | 18 | no price |
| lighting installation | Specific jobs | 8 | no price |
| switchboard upgrade | Specific jobs | 0 | no price |
| solar electrician Related, not counted | Related keywords | 8 | no price |
How Richmond compares in the United States
Over the 48 months tracked, electricians searches in Richmond peaked in February 2025 at 1,680 and were lowest in September 2025 at 720. Richmond's single latest tracked month is up 10.1% on the same month a year ago and down 27.3% 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 "emergency electrician", down 59.7%.
- Richmond is 16th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
- Richmond is 45th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
- 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 19th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 2.3 businesses per 10,000 people across Virginia).
- Richmond's 66.9 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 90.8 for this service.
- Richmond's median electrician click price of US$19.16 is 8.7% below the country median of US$20.99.
- Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 25.2% on the 12 months before.
- In Richmond, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, January, is not a strong peak.
Electrician businesses in Richmond
The US Census Bureau counts 364 businesses in this industry in Richmond, VA (2023), about 2.6 for every 10,000 people.
What is counted: employer establishments.
Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.
Population: 1,389,338 (Richmond, VA). Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP), MSA/micropolitan estimates, vintage 2023.
Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.
Electrician click prices in 6 countries
United States is 6th of 6 countries by median electrician click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.
| Country | Median click (US$) | Searches per 100,000 people | Cities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | US$4.42 | 314.7 | 5 |
| New Zealand | US$6.10 | 214.3 | 6 |
| United Kingdom | US$6.90 | 170.0 | 25 |
| Canada | US$7.85 | 106.5 | 13 |
| Australia | US$17.29 | 290.4 | 25 |
| United States this page's country | US$20.99 | 90.8 | 50 |
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 electricians in the United States
Licensing is set by each state.
Questions people ask about electrician ads in Richmond
How much does a Google Ads click cost for an electrician in Richmond?
US$19.16 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted electrician search terms in Richmond (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). Richmond is 16th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
How many people search for an electrician in Richmond each month?
930 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 25.2% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).
What does a booked job cost in clicks for electricians in Richmond?
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 US$567 in clicks at US$19.16 a click.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: US Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2022, bulk file cbp22msa.zip (NAICS x MSA) (Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors). Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.
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Method
Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for United States, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Richmond with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.
Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.
Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.
Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.
Cost per booked job is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.
Google Ads reports click prices in US$, so no currency conversion applies.
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.
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.
| Dataset | License |
|---|---|
DataForSEO, retrieved October 13, 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, 2023 | US government work / public domain |
Population |
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