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Mechanic ads in Austin: US$7.03 a click

A Google Ads click for a mechanic in Austin costs US$7.03 at the search-weighted average (9,412 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 10.7% on the 12 months before.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
US$7.03
Searches a month
9,412
Year on year
down 10.7%
Click cost per booked job
put in your rates

There is a sourced lead rate for mechanic (15.51% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Automotive - Repair, Service & Parts) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked job. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

In Austin, the lowest click price on this page is urgent at US$5.68. The highest click price on this page in Austin is specific jobs at US$8.69.

Cost per booked job

What a booked job costs in clicks

There is a sourced lead rate for mechanic (15.51% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Automotive - Repair, Service & Parts) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked job. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searchesUS$6.87put in your rates
Near meUS$6.49put in your rates
UrgentUS$5.68put in your rates
Specific jobsUS$8.69put in your rates

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

By intent

Where the mechanic searches are in Austin

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 Austin, at 50.5%.

In Austin, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$8.69 a click.

General searches

“mechanic”, “car mechanic”
Searches a month2,739, 29.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$6.87

Near me

“mechanic near me”, “car mechanic near me”
Searches a month4,751, 50.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$6.49

Urgent

Lowest click price on this page
“emergency mobile mechanic”, “car won't start”
Searches a month46, 0.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$5.68
In Austin, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“car service”, “brake repair”, “car battery replacement”
Searches a month1,877, 19.9% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$8.69
In Austin, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“tire fitting”
Searches a month8
Click price, weighted avgno Google price
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 mechanic ads in Austin

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
142.2
Calls or forms
22.1
Booked jobs
put in yours
Click cost per booked job
put in yours

US$1,000 at US$7.03 a click buys about 142.2 clicks a month.

Put in your call and booking rates to see how many booked jobs this buys.

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

Keywords

Every mechanic keyword tracked in Austin

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 mechanic keywords in Austin are “mechanic near me” (4,233 searches a month at US$6.58 a click), “mechanic” (1,767 searches a month at US$7.33 a click), and “car battery replacement” (1,123 searches a month at US$8.18 a click).

In Austin, “brake repair” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$12.49 a click, 128.8% above the US$5.46 median click price for mechanic across this country's tracked cities.

In Austin, “emergency mobile mechanic” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 8 searches a month.

In Austin, 8 of the 9 counted mechanic keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
mechanicGeneral searches1,767US$7.33
car mechanicGeneral searches972US$6.02
mechanic near meNear me4,233US$6.58
car mechanic near meNear me518US$5.71
car won't startUrgent38US$5.68
emergency mobile mechanicUrgent8no price
car battery replacementSpecific jobs1,123US$8.18
brake repairSpecific jobs384US$12.49
car serviceSpecific jobs370US$6.30
tire fitting
Related, not counted
Related keywords8no price
Ranks and trend

How Austin compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, mechanics searches in Austin peaked in March 2025 at 14,050 and were lowest in May 2026 at 7,440. Austin's single latest tracked month is down 12.7% on the same month a year ago and down 16.8% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Austin, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "brake repair", up 72.0%.

  • Austin is 45th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Austin is 8th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Austin is 4th of 4 Texas cities by click price, the highest.
  • Austin is 4th of 4 Texas cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
  • For this service, Austin sits in Texas, which is 3rd of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 1.9 businesses per 10,000 people across Texas).
  • Austin's 359.1 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 194.2 for this service.
  • Austin's median mechanic click price of US$7.03 is 28.8% above the country median of US$5.46.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 10.7% on the 12 months before.
  • In Austin, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, August, is not a strong peak.
Businesses

Mechanic businesses in Austin

The US Census Bureau counts 507 businesses in this industry in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX (2023), about 1.9 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 2,620,945 (Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, 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

Mechanic click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median mechanic 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$0.84811.55
New ZealandUS$1.74697.56
CanadaUS$2.21407.113
United KingdomUS$2.35242.125
AustraliaUS$2.58854.425
United States
this page's country
US$5.46194.250

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 mechanics in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

FAQ

Questions people ask about mechanic ads in Austin

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a mechanic in Austin?

US$7.03 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted mechanic search terms in Austin (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). Austin is 45th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a mechanic in Austin each month?

9,412 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 10.7% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for mechanics in Austin?

There is a sourced lead rate for mechanic (15.51% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Automotive - Repair, Service & Parts) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked job. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

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). Population and business counts: US Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2022, bulk file cbp22msa.zip (NAICS x MSA) (General Automotive Repair). 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 Austin 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), Automotive - Repair, Service & Parts
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, 2023
US government work / public domain
Population

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