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Painter ads in Hartford: US$9.20 a click

A Google Ads click for a painter in Hartford costs US$9.20 at the search-weighted average (303 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 42.3% on the 12 months before.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
US$9.20
Searches a month
303
Year on year
down 42.3%
Click cost per booked job
US$272

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$272 in clicks at US$9.20 a click.

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$272 in clicks at US$9.20 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
Near meUS$10.37US$307
Specific jobsUS$6.76US$200

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

By intent

Where the painter searches are in Hartford

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 Hartford, at 58.4%.

In Hartford, near me has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$10.37 a click.

General searches

“house painter”, “house painting”
Searches a month19, 6.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price

Near me

“painters near me”
Searches a month177, 58.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$10.37

Specific jobs

“interior painting”, “exterior house painting”, “painting quote”, “commercial painters”, “roof painting”, “fence painting”
Searches a month107, 35.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$6.76

Related keywords

Not counted
“wallpaper removal”, “plastering”
Searches a month52
Click price, weighted avgUS$0.99
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 painter ads in Hartford

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
108.7
Calls or forms
8.8
Booked jobs
3.7
Click cost per booked job
US$272

US$1,000 at US$9.20 a click buys about 108.7 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 8.8 calls and 3.7 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about US$272 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every painter keyword tracked in Hartford

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 painter keywords in Hartford are “painters near me” (177 searches a month at US$10.37 a click), “interior painting” (65 searches a month at US$0.99 a click), and “exterior house painting” (15 searches a month at US$20.48 a click).

In Hartford, “painting quote” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$40.66 a click, 303.0% above the US$10.09 median click price for painter across this country's tracked cities.

In Hartford, “commercial painters” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 3 searches a month.

In Hartford, 4 of the 9 counted painter keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
house paintingGeneral searches12no price
house painterGeneral searches7no price
painters near meNear me177US$10.37
interior paintingSpecific jobs65US$0.99
exterior house paintingSpecific jobs15US$20.48
roof paintingSpecific jobs10no price
fence paintingSpecific jobs9no price
painting quoteSpecific jobs5US$40.66
commercial paintersSpecific jobs3no price
plastering
Related, not counted
Related keywords42US$0.61
wallpaper removal
Related, not counted
Related keywords10US$2.58
Ranks and trend

How Hartford compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, painters searches in Hartford peaked in April 2025 at 950 and were lowest in December 2022 at 90. Hartford's single latest tracked month is down 58.1% on the same month a year ago and down 67.5% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Hartford, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "interior painting", up 151.6%.

  • Hartford is 21st of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Hartford is 45th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Hartford is the only city in Connecticut in this set, so there is no same-state rank.
  • For this service, Hartford sits in Connecticut, which is 9th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 1.0 businesses per 10,000 people across Connecticut).
  • Hartford's 25.9 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 22.5 for this service.
  • Hartford's median painter click price of US$9.20 is 8.8% below the country median of US$10.09.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 42.3% on the 12 months before.
  • In Hartford, searches peak in April, about 52.0% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

Painter businesses in Hartford

The US Census Bureau counts 116 businesses in this industry in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT (2023), about 1.0 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 1,171,426 (Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT). 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

Painter click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median painter click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
United KingdomUS$0.9050.925
IrelandUS$1.5191.95
New ZealandUS$3.53115.46
AustraliaUS$5.7161.425
CanadaUS$7.1231.813
United States
this page's country
US$10.0922.550

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 painters in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

FAQ

Questions people ask about painter ads in Hartford

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a painter in Hartford?

US$9.20 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted painter search terms in Hartford (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). Hartford is 21st of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a painter in Hartford each month?

303 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 42.3% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for painters in Hartford?

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$272 in clicks at US$9.20 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) (Painting and Wall Covering Contractors). 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 Hartford 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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