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House cleaning ads in San Francisco: US$12.59 a click

A Google Ads click for a house cleaner in San Francisco costs US$12.59 at the search-weighted average (1,599 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 21.5% on the 12 months before.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
US$12.59
Searches a month
1,599
Year on year
down 21.5%
Click cost per booked clean
US$372

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$372 in clicks at US$12.59 a click.

In San Francisco, the lowest click price on this page is near me at US$10.33. The highest click price on this page in San Francisco is specific jobs at US$17.79.

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$372 in clicks at US$12.59 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked clean
General searchesUS$12.37US$366
Near meUS$10.33US$306
Specific jobsUS$17.79US$526

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 San Francisco

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 San Francisco, at 62.4%.

In San Francisco, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$17.79 a click.

General searches

“house cleaning”, “cleaning services”
Searches a month999, 62.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$12.37

Near me

Lowest click price on this page
“house cleaning near me”, “cleaning services near me”
Searches a month336, 21.0% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$10.33
In San Francisco, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“end of lease cleaning”, “bond cleaning”, “deep cleaning service”, “regular house cleaning”, “spring cleaning service”
Searches a month265, 16.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$17.79
In San Francisco, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“office cleaning”, “carpet cleaning”
Searches a month1,175
Click price, weighted avgUS$6.27
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 San Francisco

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$372

US$1,000 at US$12.59 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$372 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every house cleaning keyword tracked in San Francisco

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 San Francisco are “cleaning services” (648 searches a month at US$13.54 a click), “house cleaning” (351 searches a month at US$10.21 a click), and “deep cleaning service” (180 searches a month at US$17.85 a click).

In San Francisco, “house cleaning near me” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$3.92 a click, 66.7% below the US$11.77 median click price for house cleaning across this country's tracked cities.

In San Francisco, “regular house cleaning” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 8 searches a month.

In San Francisco, 6 of the 9 counted house cleaning keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
cleaning servicesGeneral searches648US$13.54
house cleaningGeneral searches351US$10.21
cleaning services near meNear me169US$16.67
house cleaning near meNear me167US$3.92
deep cleaning serviceSpecific jobs180US$17.85
bond cleaningSpecific jobs45no price
end of lease cleaningSpecific jobs24no price
regular house cleaningSpecific jobs8US$16.53
spring cleaning serviceSpecific jobs8no price
carpet cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords1,090US$6.38
office cleaning
Related, not counted
Related keywords85US$4.88
Ranks and trend

How San Francisco compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, house cleaners searches in San Francisco peaked in March 2025 at 5,220 and were lowest in December 2025 at 810. San Francisco's single latest tracked month is down 27.0% on the same month a year ago and down 8.7% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In San Francisco, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "bond cleaning", up 980.0%.

  • San Francisco is 34th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
  • San Francisco is 16th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • San Francisco is 6th of 6 California cities by click price, the highest.
  • San Francisco is 4th of 6 California cities by monthly searches, among the three lowest.
  • For this service, San Francisco sits in California, which is 11th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 1.9 businesses per 10,000 people across California).
  • San Francisco's 34.5 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 40.5 for this service.
  • San Francisco's median house cleaning click price of US$12.59 is 7.0% above the country median of US$11.77.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 21.5% on the 12 months before.
  • In San Francisco, searches peak in March, about 67.2% above the monthly average, and are lowest in September.
Businesses

House cleaning businesses in San Francisco

The US Census Bureau counts 1,036 businesses in this industry in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA (2023), about 2.2 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 4,630,041 (San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA). 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 San Francisco

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

US$12.59 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted house cleaning search terms in San Francisco (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). San Francisco is 34th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.

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

1,599 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 21.5% 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 San Francisco?

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$372 in clicks at US$12.59 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 San Francisco 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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