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Mortgage broker ads in Cleveland: US$15.50 a click

A Google Ads click for a mortgage broker in Cleveland costs US$15.50 at the search-weighted average (2,419 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are up 206.9% on the 12 months before.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
US$15.50
Searches a month
2,419
Year on year
up 206.9%
Click cost per booked loan
put in your rates

There is a sourced lead rate for mortgage broker (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked loan. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

In Cleveland, the lowest click price on this page is general searches at US$13.54. The highest click price on this page in Cleveland is specific jobs at US$26.82.

Cost per booked loan

What a booked loan costs in clicks

There is a sourced lead rate for mortgage broker (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked loan. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked loan
General searchesUS$13.54put in your rates
Near meUS$21.25put in your rates
Specific jobsUS$26.82put in your rates

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

By intent

Where the mortgage broker searches are in Cleveland

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 Cleveland, at 84.1%.

In Cleveland, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$26.82 a click.

General searches

Lowest click price on this page
“mortgage broker”, “home loan broker”
Searches a month2,034, 84.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$13.54
In Cleveland, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Near me

“mortgage broker near me”
Searches a month32, 1.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$21.25

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“first home buyer loan”, “refinance home loan”, “investment property loan”, “home loan pre-approval”, “self employed home loan”, “construction loan broker”, “mortgage broker fees”
Searches a month353, 14.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$26.82
In Cleveland, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“best home loan rates”
Searches a month10
Click price, weighted avgUS$4.53
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 mortgage broker ads in Cleveland

Put in your own value per loan 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
64.5
Calls or forms
1.7
Booked loans
put in yours
Click cost per booked loan
put in yours

US$1,000 at US$15.50 a click buys about 64.5 clicks a month.

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

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

Keywords

Every mortgage broker keyword tracked in Cleveland

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 mortgage broker keywords in Cleveland are “mortgage broker” (2,029 searches a month at US$13.54 a click), “home loan pre-approval” (198 searches a month at US$29.15 a click), and “first home buyer loan” (108 searches a month at US$14.96 a click).

In Cleveland, “investment property loan” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$56.94 a click, 137.1% above the US$24.02 median click price for mortgage broker across this country's tracked cities.

In Cleveland, “construction loan broker” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 2 searches a month.

In Cleveland, 6 of the 10 counted mortgage broker keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
mortgage brokerGeneral searches2,029US$13.54
home loan brokerGeneral searches5no price
mortgage broker near meNear me32US$21.25
home loan pre-approvalSpecific jobs198US$29.15
first home buyer loanSpecific jobs108US$14.96
investment property loanSpecific jobs18US$56.94
refinance home loanSpecific jobs12US$49.83
mortgage broker feesSpecific jobs10no price
self employed home loanSpecific jobs5no price
construction loan brokerSpecific jobs2no price
best home loan rates
Related, not counted
Related keywords10US$4.53
Ranks and trend

How Cleveland compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, mortgage brokers searches in Cleveland peaked in December 2025 at 18,430 and were lowest in November 2023 at 290. Cleveland's single latest tracked month is down 30.0% on the same month a year ago and down 10.9% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Cleveland, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "mortgage broker", up 766.5%.

  • Cleveland is 3rd of 50 United States cities by click price, among the three lowest.
  • Cleveland is 3rd of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, among the three highest.
  • Cleveland is 1st of 3 Ohio cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Cleveland is 1st of 3 Ohio cities by monthly searches, the highest.
  • For this service, Cleveland sits in Ohio, which is 3rd of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 0.2 businesses per 10,000 people across Ohio).
  • Cleveland's 111.7 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 20.9 for this service.
  • Cleveland's median mortgage broker click price of US$15.50 is 35.5% below the country median of US$24.02.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are up 206.9% on the 12 months before.
  • In Cleveland, searches peak in December, about 370.6% above the monthly average, and are lowest in November.
Businesses

Mortgage broker businesses in Cleveland

The US Census Bureau counts 34 businesses in this industry in Cleveland, OH (2023), about 0.2 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 2,165,775 (Cleveland, OH). 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

Mortgage broker click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median mortgage broker 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$9.4896.75
New ZealandUS$12.2197.66
CanadaUS$12.7144.313
AustraliaUS$19.96140.925
United KingdomUS$20.6134.125
United States
this page's country
US$24.0220.950

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 mortgage brokers in the United States

Licensing is set by each state. Mortgage loan originators are also registered federally via the NMLS, but the license itself is issued by the state.

FAQ

Questions people ask about mortgage broker ads in Cleveland

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a mortgage broker in Cleveland?

US$15.50 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted mortgage broker search terms in Cleveland (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). Cleveland is 3rd of 50 United States cities by click price, among the three lowest.

How many people search for a mortgage broker in Cleveland each month?

2,419 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, up 206.9% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).

What does a booked loan cost in clicks for mortgage brokers in Cleveland?

There is a sourced lead rate for mortgage broker (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked loan. 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) (Mortgage and Nonmortgage Loan Brokers). 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 Cleveland 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 loan 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), Finance & Insurance
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, 2023
US government work / public domain
Population

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