Mechanic ads in Memphis: US$3.51 a click

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 Memphis is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Memphis 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 mechanic searches are in Memphis

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 Memphis, at 44.7%.

In Memphis, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$3.76 a click.

Plan a month of mechanic ads in Memphis

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.

Every mechanic keyword tracked in Memphis

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 Memphis are “mechanic” (922 searches a month at US$3.73 a click), “mechanic near me” (887 searches a month at US$3.55 a click), and “car battery replacement” (522 searches a month at US$2.59 a click).

In Memphis, “car service” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$1.36 a click, 75.1% below the US$5.46 median click price for mechanic across this country's tracked cities.

In Memphis, “emergency mobile mechanic” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

In Memphis, 7 of the 9 counted mechanic keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Memphis compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, mechanics searches in Memphis peaked in January 2026 at 7,530 and were lowest in November 2022 at 2,080. Memphis's single latest tracked month is down 31.5% on the same month a year ago and down 24.9% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Memphis, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "emergency mobile mechanic", down 70.0%.

• Memphis is 4th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
• Memphis is 43rd of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Memphis is 1st of 2 Tennessee cities by click price, the lowest.
• Memphis is 2nd of 2 Tennessee cities by monthly searches, the lowest.
• For this service, Memphis sits in Tennessee, which is 2nd of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 1.7 businesses per 10,000 people across Tennessee).
• Memphis's 239.7 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 194.2 for this service.
• Memphis's median mechanic click price of US$3.51 is 35.7% below the country median of US$5.46.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 9.2% on the 12 months before.
• In Memphis, searches peak in January, about 32.5% above the monthly average, and are lowest in November.

Mechanic businesses in Memphis

The US Census Bureau counts 212 businesses in this industry in Memphis, TN-MS-AR (2023), about 1.6 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 1,341,412 (Memphis, TN-MS-AR). 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.

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.

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 mechanics in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

Questions people ask about mechanic ads in Memphis

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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.