Painter ads in San Antonio: US$10.30 a click

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$305 in clicks at US$10.30 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.

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

Where the painter 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.

Specific jobs are the largest share of counted search volume in San Antonio, at 54.1%.

In San Antonio, general searches has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$16.29 a click.

Plan a month of painter 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.

Every painter 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 painter keywords in San Antonio are “painters near me” (382 searches a month at US$15.89 a click), “interior painting” (378 searches a month at US$3.01 a click), and “exterior house painting” (75 searches a month at US$17.03 a click).

In San Antonio, “house painter” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$35.25 a click, 249.4% above the US$10.09 median click price for painter across this country's tracked cities.

In San Antonio, “painting quote” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 10 searches a month.

In San Antonio, 7 of the 9 counted painter keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How San Antonio compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, painters searches in San Antonio peaked in April 2026 at 1,610 and were lowest in December 2025 at 370. San Antonio's single latest tracked month is down 21.1% on the same month a year ago and up 13.2% 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 "interior painting", up 159.4%.

• San Antonio is 26th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
• San Antonio is 11th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• San Antonio is 3rd of 4 Texas cities by click price, among the three lowest.
• San Antonio is 2nd of 4 Texas cities by monthly searches, among the three highest.
• For this service, San Antonio sits in Texas, which is 3rd of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three lowest (an average of 0.6 businesses per 10,000 people across Texas).
• San Antonio's 36.8 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 22.5 for this service.
• San Antonio's median painter click price of US$10.30 is 2.1% above the country median of US$10.09.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are up 5.3% on the 12 months before.
• In San Antonio, searches peak in March, about 39.1% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.

Painter businesses in San Antonio

The US Census Bureau counts 134 businesses in this industry in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX (2023), about 0.5 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.

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.

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 painters in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

Questions people ask about painter ads in San Antonio

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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.