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Locksmith ads in San Antonio: US$17.41 a click

A Google Ads click for a locksmith in San Antonio costs US$17.41 at the search-weighted average (6,152 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 19.8% on the 12 months before.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
US$17.41
Searches a month
6,152
Year on year
down 19.8%
Click cost per booked job
US$515

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$515 in clicks at US$17.41 a click.

In San Antonio, the lowest click price on this page is specific jobs at US$4.84. The highest click price on this page in San Antonio is urgent at US$22.19.

Cost per booked job

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$515 in clicks at US$17.41 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searchesUS$18.71US$553
Near meUS$16.65US$492
UrgentUS$22.19US$656
Specific jobsUS$4.84US$143

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

By intent

Where the locksmith searches are in San Antonio

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 San Antonio, at 59.7%.

In San Antonio, urgent has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$22.19 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency locksmith”) costs US$20.37 a click, against US$18.71 for “locksmith”.

General searches

“locksmith”
Searches a month2,233, 36.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$18.71

Near me

“locksmith near me”
Searches a month3,675, 59.7% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$16.65

Urgent

Highest click price on this page
“emergency locksmith”, “24 hour locksmith”, “locked out of house”, “locked out of car”
Searches a month162, 2.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$22.19
In San Antonio, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Specific jobs

Lowest click price on this page
“lock change”, “rekey locks”, “lock repair”, “safe opening”, “commercial locksmith”
Searches a month81, 1.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$4.84
In San Antonio, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“key cutting”
Searches a month28
Click price, weighted avgUS$5.40
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 locksmith ads in San Antonio

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)

Clicks a month
57.4
Calls or forms
4.6
Booked jobs
1.9
Click cost per booked job
US$515

US$1,000 at US$17.41 a click buys about 57.4 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 4.6 calls and 1.9 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about US$515 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every locksmith keyword tracked in San Antonio

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 locksmith keywords in San Antonio are “locksmith near me” (3,675 searches a month at US$16.65 a click), “locksmith” (2,233 searches a month at US$18.71 a click), and “24 hour locksmith” (62 searches a month at US$25.41 a click).

In San Antonio, “rekey locks” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$1.64 a click, 90.6% below the US$17.43 median click price for locksmith across this country's tracked cities.

In San Antonio, “safe opening” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 3 searches a month.

In San Antonio, 9 of the 11 counted locksmith keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
locksmithGeneral searches2,233US$18.71
locksmith near meNear me3,675US$16.65
24 hour locksmithUrgent62US$25.41
locked out of carUrgent44US$20.06
emergency locksmithUrgent40US$20.37
locked out of houseUrgent16US$20.10
rekey locksSpecific jobs38US$1.64
commercial locksmithSpecific jobs18US$11.31
lock changeSpecific jobs12US$5.26
lock repairSpecific jobs10no price
safe openingSpecific jobs3no price
key cutting
Related, not counted
Related keywords28US$5.40
Ranks and trend

How San Antonio compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, locksmiths searches in San Antonio peaked in March 2023 at 14,080 and were lowest in December 2025 at 5,690. San Antonio's single latest tracked month is up 1.4% on the same month a year ago and down 22.4% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In San Antonio, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "commercial locksmith", down 50.0%.

  • San Antonio is 25th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
  • San Antonio is 15th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • San Antonio is 1st of 4 Texas cities by click price, the lowest.
  • San Antonio is 3rd of 4 Texas cities by monthly searches, among the three highest.
  • For this service, San Antonio sits in Texas, which is 6th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 0.1 businesses per 10,000 people across Texas).
  • San Antonio's 218.7 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 165.2 for this service.
  • San Antonio's median locksmith click price of US$17.41 is 0.1% below the country median of US$17.43.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 19.8% on the 12 months before.
  • In San Antonio, searches peak in March, about 21.3% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

Locksmith businesses in San Antonio

The US Census Bureau counts 30 businesses in this industry in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX (2023), about 0.1 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 2,813,140 (San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX). 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

Locksmith click prices in 6 countries

United States is 5th of 6 countries by median locksmith 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$2.88311.05
New ZealandUS$3.38199.66
AustraliaUS$6.61320.125
CanadaUS$7.74154.513
United States
this page's country
US$17.43165.250
United KingdomUS$21.13188.225

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 locksmiths in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

FAQ

Questions people ask about locksmith ads in San Antonio

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a locksmith in San Antonio?

US$17.41 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted locksmith search terms in San Antonio (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). San Antonio is 25th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a locksmith in San Antonio each month?

6,152 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 19.8% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for locksmiths in San Antonio?

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$515 in clicks at US$17.41 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) (Locksmiths). 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 Antonio 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.

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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