House cleaning ads in Birmingham: US$10.21 a click

What a booked clean 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 clean costs about US$302 in clicks at US$10.21 a click.

Cost per booked clean in Birmingham is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Birmingham 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 house cleaning searches are in Birmingham

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 Birmingham, at 45.4%.

In Birmingham, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$12.56 a click.

Plan a month of house cleaning ads in Birmingham

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

Every house cleaning keyword tracked in Birmingham

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 house cleaning keywords in Birmingham are “cleaning services near me” (129 searches a month at US$8.59 a click), “cleaning services” (87 searches a month at US$12.15 a click), and “deep cleaning service” (42 searches a month with no Google click price).

In Birmingham, “house cleaning near me” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$7.82 a click, 33.6% below the US$11.77 median click price for house cleaning across this country's tracked cities.

In Birmingham, “bond cleaning” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

In Birmingham, 4 of the 9 counted house cleaning keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Birmingham compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, house cleaners searches in Birmingham peaked in April 2023 at 1,390 and were lowest in November 2025 at 300. Birmingham's single latest tracked month is down 5.6% on the same month a year ago and down 34.6% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Birmingham, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "end of lease cleaning", up 900.0%.

• Birmingham is 12th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
• Birmingham is 47th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Birmingham is the only city in Alabama in this set, so there is no same-state rank.
• For this service, Birmingham sits in Alabama, which is 2nd of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 1.4 businesses per 10,000 people across Alabama).
• Birmingham's 30.8 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 40.5 for this service.
• Birmingham's median house cleaning click price of US$10.21 is 13.3% below the country median of US$11.77.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 25.7% on the 12 months before.
• In Birmingham, searches peak in April, about 37.0% above the monthly average, and are lowest in June.

House cleaning businesses in Birmingham

The US Census Bureau counts 171 businesses in this industry in Birmingham, AL (2023), about 1.4 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 1,197,766 (Birmingham, AL). 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.

House cleaning click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median house cleaning 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 house cleaners in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

Questions people ask about house cleaning ads in Birmingham

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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.