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Pest control ads in Philadelphia: US$35.62 a click

A Google Ads click for a pest controller in Philadelphia costs US$35.62 at the search-weighted average (2,087 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 38.1% on the 12 months before.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
US$35.62
Searches a month
2,087
Year on year
down 38.1%
Click cost per booked treatment
US$1,054

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 treatment costs about US$1,054 in clicks at US$35.62 a click.

In Philadelphia, the lowest click price on this page is urgent at US$19.65. The highest click price on this page in Philadelphia is specific jobs at US$42.96.

Cost per booked treatment

What a booked treatment 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 treatment costs about US$1,054 in clicks at US$35.62 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked treatment
General searchesUS$32.77US$969
Near meUS$38.37US$1,135
UrgentUS$19.65US$581
Specific jobsUS$42.96US$1,271

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

By intent

Where the pest control searches are in Philadelphia

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 Philadelphia, at 39.8%.

In Philadelphia, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$42.96 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency pest control”) costs US$45.38 a click, against US$32.77 for “pest control”.

General searches

“pest control”
Searches a month831, 39.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$32.77

Near me

“pest control near me”
Searches a month468, 22.4% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$38.37

Urgent

Lowest click price on this page
“termite treatment”, “emergency pest control”
Searches a month202, 9.7% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$19.65
In Philadelphia, 1st of 4 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“pest inspection”, “termite inspection”, “cockroach treatment”, “rodent control”, “spider control”, “ant treatment”, “pre-purchase pest inspection”
Searches a month587, 28.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$42.96
In Philadelphia, 4th of 4 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“fumigation”
Searches a month140
Click price, weighted avgUS$0.92
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 pest control ads in Philadelphia

Put in your own value per treatment 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
28.1
Calls or forms
2.3
Booked treatments
0.9
Click cost per booked treatment
US$1,054

US$1,000 at US$35.62 a click buys about 28.1 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 2.3 calls and 0.9 booked treatments, so each booked treatment costs about US$1,054 in clicks.

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

Keywords

Every pest control keyword tracked in Philadelphia

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 pest control keywords in Philadelphia are “pest control” (831 searches a month at US$32.77 a click), “pest control near me” (468 searches a month at US$38.37 a click), and “termite inspection” (262 searches a month at US$80.47 a click).

In Philadelphia, “termite inspection” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$80.47 a click, 143.5% above the US$33.05 median click price for pest control across this country's tracked cities.

In Philadelphia, “pre-purchase pest inspection” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 0 searches a month.

In Philadelphia, 10 of the 11 counted pest control keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
pest controlGeneral searches831US$32.77
pest control near meNear me468US$38.37
termite treatmentUrgent181US$16.66
emergency pest controlUrgent21US$45.38
termite inspectionSpecific jobs262US$80.47
rodent controlSpecific jobs204US$17.33
spider controlSpecific jobs79US$0.42
cockroach treatmentSpecific jobs22US$4.42
pest inspectionSpecific jobs12US$38.60
ant treatmentSpecific jobs8US$0.91
pre-purchase pest inspectionSpecific jobs0no price
fumigation
Related, not counted
Related keywords140US$0.92
Ranks and trend

How Philadelphia compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, pest controllers searches in Philadelphia peaked in March 2025 at 7,040 and were lowest in November 2022 at 1,360. Philadelphia's single latest tracked month is down 23.9% on the same month a year ago and down 27.1% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Philadelphia, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "pre-purchase pest inspection", down 100.0%.

  • Philadelphia is 36th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Philadelphia is 17th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Philadelphia is 2nd of 2 Pennsylvania cities by click price, the highest.
  • Philadelphia is 1st of 2 Pennsylvania cities by monthly searches, the highest.
  • For this service, Philadelphia sits in Pennsylvania, which is 10th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 0.3 businesses per 10,000 people across Pennsylvania).
  • Philadelphia's 33.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 54.4 for this service.
  • Philadelphia's median pest control click price of US$35.62 is 7.8% above the country median of US$33.05.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 38.1% on the 12 months before.
  • In Philadelphia, searches peak in March, about 36.6% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

Pest control businesses in Philadelphia

The US Census Bureau counts 256 businesses in this industry in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (2023), about 0.4 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 6,329,118 (Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD). 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

Pest control click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median pest control 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$3.5988.55
New ZealandUS$5.0274.56
United KingdomUS$5.0957.625
CanadaUS$5.6457.613
AustraliaUS$11.76168.125
United States
this page's country
US$33.0554.450

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 pest controllers in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

FAQ

Questions people ask about pest control ads in Philadelphia

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a pest controller in Philadelphia?

US$35.62 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted pest control search terms in Philadelphia (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). Philadelphia is 36th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a pest controller in Philadelphia each month?

2,087 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 38.1% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).

What does a booked treatment cost in clicks for pest controllers in Philadelphia?

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 treatment costs about US$1,054 in clicks at US$35.62 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) (Exterminating and Pest Control Services). 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 Philadelphia 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 treatment 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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