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House cleaning ads in Pittsburgh: US$12.60 a click

A Google Ads click for a house cleaner in Pittsburgh costs US$12.60 at the search-weighted average (702 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 12.7% on the 12 months before.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
US$12.60
Searches a month
702
Year on year
down 12.7%
Click cost per booked clean
US$373

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$373 in clicks at US$12.60 a click.

In Pittsburgh, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at US$6.01. The highest click price on this page in Pittsburgh is near me at US$13.51.

Cost per booked clean

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$373 in clicks at US$12.60 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked clean
General searchesUS$13.15US$389
Near meUS$13.51US$400
Specific jobsUS$6.01US$178

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

By intent

Where the house cleaning searches are in Pittsburgh

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 Pittsburgh, at 53.9%.

In Pittsburgh, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$13.51 a click.

General searches

“house cleaning”, “cleaning services”
Searches a month239, 34.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$13.15

Near me

Highest click price on this page
“house cleaning near me”, “cleaning services near me”
Searches a month378, 53.9% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$13.51
In Pittsburgh, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“end of lease cleaning”, “bond cleaning”, “deep cleaning service”, “regular house cleaning”, “spring cleaning service”
Searches a month84, 12.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$6.01
In Pittsburgh, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“office cleaning”, “carpet cleaning”
Searches a month921
Click price, weighted avgUS$7.67
Related keywords sit next to this service but are not counted in the searches or the search-weighted average click price above.
Plan

Plan a month of house cleaning ads in Pittsburgh

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.

What the budget buys (worked example)

Clicks a month
79.4
Calls or forms
6.4
Booked cleans
2.7
Click cost per booked clean
US$373

US$1,000 at US$12.60 a click buys about 79.4 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 6.4 calls and 2.7 booked cleans, so each booked clean costs about US$373 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every house cleaning keyword tracked in Pittsburgh

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 Pittsburgh are “cleaning services near me” (238 searches a month at US$15.11 a click), “cleaning services” (156 searches a month at US$17.07 a click), and “house cleaning near me” (140 searches a month at US$10.79 a click).

In Pittsburgh, “house cleaning” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$5.77 a click, 51.0% below the US$11.77 median click price for house cleaning across this country's tracked cities.

In Pittsburgh, “regular house cleaning” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 1 search a month.

In Pittsburgh, 5 of the 9 counted house cleaning keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
cleaning servicesGeneral searches156US$17.07
house cleaningGeneral searches83US$5.77
cleaning services near meNear me238US$15.11
house cleaning near meNear me140US$10.79
deep cleaning serviceSpecific jobs72US$6.01
spring cleaning serviceSpecific jobs7no price
bond cleaningSpecific jobs2no price
end of lease cleaningSpecific jobs2no price
regular house cleaningSpecific jobs1no price
carpet cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords860US$7.58
office cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords61US$9.00
Ranks and trend

How Pittsburgh compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, house cleaners searches in Pittsburgh peaked in April 2023 at 1,620 and were lowest in December 2025 at 470. Pittsburgh's single latest tracked month is down 23.6% on the same month a year ago and down 30.6% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Pittsburgh, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "spring cleaning service", up 60.0%.

  • Pittsburgh is 35th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Pittsburgh is 40th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Pittsburgh is 2nd of 2 Pennsylvania cities by click price, the highest.
  • Pittsburgh is 2nd of 2 Pennsylvania cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • For this service, Pittsburgh sits in Pennsylvania, which is 13th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 2.1 businesses per 10,000 people across Pennsylvania).
  • Pittsburgh's 29.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 40.5 for this service.
  • Pittsburgh's median house cleaning click price of US$12.60 is 7.1% above the country median of US$11.77.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 12.7% on the 12 months before.
  • In Pittsburgh, searches peak in April, about 18.3% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

House cleaning businesses in Pittsburgh

The US Census Bureau counts 489 businesses in this industry in Pittsburgh, PA (2023), about 2.0 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 2,421,992 (Pittsburgh, PA). 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.

6 countries

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.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$1.88104.25
United KingdomUS$3.3447.125
CanadaUS$5.2543.813
New ZealandUS$5.3857.46
AustraliaUS$8.75106.725
United States
this page's country
US$11.7740.550

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 house cleaners in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

FAQ

Questions people ask about house cleaning ads in Pittsburgh

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a house cleaner in Pittsburgh?

US$12.60 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted house cleaning search terms in Pittsburgh (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). Pittsburgh is 35th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a house cleaner in Pittsburgh each month?

702 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 12.7% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).

What does a booked clean cost in clicks for house cleaners in Pittsburgh?

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 clean costs about US$373 in clicks at US$12.60 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) (Janitorial Services). 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 Pittsburgh 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 clean 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.

Sources

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.

DatasetLicense
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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