# Who gets found in Cincinnati?

Aug 30 → Sep 8 4 page-one leaders changed hands 17 new pages in the top 5

THE SEARCH LEDGER · CINCINNATI EDITION · TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2026

Every month, Cincinnati types 1,984,320 searches looking for a local business, and advertisers pay $4.43M chasing them. Somebody gets found. Somebody doesn't. This is the weekly ledger of who, at what price, and what's still up for grabs — refreshed weekly.

BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 · [METHODOLOGY](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/cincinnati#methodology)

1,984,320

SEARCHES IN PLAY / MO

$4.43M

AD-EQUIV. VALUE / MO

1,316

LISTINGS TRACKED

3,538

KEYWORDS TRACKED

Cincinnati searches 4,064,570 times a month in total. The other 2,080,250 are branded or navigational — someone already knows where they are going.

Source: [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) search volume and cost-per-click via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA, twelve-month averages · pulled September 8, 2026. "Searches in play" counts commercial and transactional intent only, classified by our own heuristics rather than by Google. Ad-equivalent value is Σ volume × CPC — one click priced for every tracked search, a ceiling on what the traffic would cost to buy, not spend and not revenue. Listings: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) results via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA, deduped by place\_id · pulled September 8, 2026. Each category search returns at most 100 results, so this is a ceiling on what we see, not a census of the metro.

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## The demand

Before anyone wins a customer, the customer has to ask. Here is what Cincinnati asks Google for in an average month.

1,984,320

searches in an average month across the 1,638 keywords where a local business can actually be chosen — roughly **66,000 searches a day** for something, or someone, in Cincinnati.

### Where the demand goes

Each square is 1% of the addressable searches — the commercial and transactional ones a local business can win, 49% of everything Cincinnati searches.

Waffle chart of monthly search demand by vertical: Food & Dining 70 percent, Other 10 percent, Attractions 7 percent, Health & Wellness 4 percent, Real Estate 3 percent, Shopping 2 percent, Hotels & Lodging 2 percent, Home Services 2 percent.

Source: [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) search volume and cost-per-click via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA, twelve-month averages · pulled September 8, 2026, bucketed by our own vertical classifier — Google supplies no category. Squares are percentages of the addressable set, not of all search, and are largest-remainder rounded to 100.

Food & Dining 70% Other 10% Attractions 7% Health & Wellness 4% Real Estate 3% Shopping 2% Hotels & Lodging 2% Home Services 2%

WHERE THE DEMAND CONCENTRATES

Food & Dining is **70% of the addressable demand** in Cincinnati, against 7% for Attractions. The board in Chapter 2 prices every one of those searches.

### When the demand comes

Search interest by month, 0–100 per vertical. The pink outline marks each vertical's peak — the month the phones ring.

Source: Google Ads monthly search volume via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA · pulled September 8, 2026. Each row is indexed to its own peak month, so cells compare a vertical against itself and never against another row. Not a search count, and not [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/).

| VERTICAL | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Attractions | 31 | 31 | 45 | 70 | 85 | 97 | 100 | 87 | 62 | 66 | 41 | 49 |
| Food & Dining | 72 | 71 | 85 | 84 | 85 | 83 | 96 | 100 | 85 | 86 | 76 | 73 |
| Hotels & Lodging | 63 | 68 | 75 | 81 | 85 | 89 | 100 | 91 | 78 | 84 | 64 | 66 |
| Entertainment | 62 | 41 | 43 | 41 | 48 | 58 | 100 | 70 | 52 | 56 | 65 | 71 |
| Health & Wellness | 93 | 79 | 92 | 86 | 85 | 79 | 85 | 93 | 100 | 93 | 84 | 91 |
| Real Estate | 69 | 63 | 76 | 74 | 70 | 62 | 61 | 100 | 98 | 62 | 58 | 53 |
| Shopping | 62 | 56 | 72 | 75 | 91 | 83 | 92 | 100 | 71 | 78 | 89 | 79 |
| Home Services | 74 | 83 | 84 | 80 | 68 | 73 | 76 | 85 | 100 | 90 | 65 | 63 |
| Legal | 92 | 100 | 97 | 77 | 64 | 61 | 63 | 79 | 98 | 89 | 55 | 66 |
| Education | 43 | 35 | 38 | 42 | 40 | 38 | 75 | 70 | 49 | 47 | 37 | 100 |
| Professional Services | 88 | 100 | 89 | 68 | 41 | 40 | 48 | 58 | 46 | 55 | 46 | 55 |
| Travel & Transit | 57 | 58 | 85 | 76 | 84 | 91 | 100 | 79 | 70 | 82 | 62 | 64 |
| Personal Care | 49 | 52 | 68 | 62 | 68 | 62 | 62 | 100 | 68 | 59 | 53 | 52 |

### Climbing fastest

The steepest risers in Cincinnati over the last twelve months of Google Ads volume (Aug 2025 – Jul 2026). Growth compares each keyword's last three months against its own twelve-month average, so it tops out at 300% by construction.

zillow cincinnati houses for sale ▲ 287% BREAKOUT

world cup watch party cincinnati ▲ 285% BREAKOUT

july 4 cincinnati events ▲ 284% BREAKOUT

burger week cincinnati ▲ 278% BREAKOUT

4th of july cincinnati ▲ 278% BREAKOUT

Source: Google Ads monthly search volume via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Not [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/), and not a weekly series — the window closes one to two months before the pull.

### Where the demand sits

Priced keywords that name one of the places we mine for Cincinnati — its seed suburbs plus the boroughs Maps returned at least twice — grouped by that name. A metro is not one market. This ranks the places we look for, not every place that exists — a landmark or district we do not mine is absent however much demand names it, and a metro can miss a place that would have ranked near the top. 5 more clear the bar below these.

Mason SUBURB 204,420/mo

45 keywords · $350.9K/mo in ad-equivalent value

Florence SUBURB 24,510/mo

28 keywords · $46.7K/mo in ad-equivalent value

West Chester SUBURB 19,000/mo

20 keywords · $18.0K/mo in ad-equivalent value

Hamilton SUBURB 14,090/mo

6 keywords · $2.1K/mo in ad-equivalent value

Northside NEIGHBORHOOD 11,490/mo

8 keywords · $8.4K/mo in ad-equivalent value

Oakley NEIGHBORHOOD 8,970/mo

22 keywords · $27.2K/mo in ad-equivalent value

Hyde Park NEIGHBORHOOD 7,130/mo

26 keywords · $12.7K/mo in ad-equivalent value

Clifton NEIGHBORHOOD 2,950/mo

10 keywords · $7.0K/mo in ad-equivalent value

Mount Adams NEIGHBORHOOD 2,290/mo

2 keywords · $1.1K/mo in ad-equivalent value

Walnut Hills NEIGHBORHOOD 740/mo

4 keywords · $411/mo in ad-equivalent value

Source: Computed from Google Ads search volume × CPC via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA, September 8, 2026 — keywords grouped by the place name they contain. Rows are grouped by NAME CONTAINMENT, not by place: a keyword joins every row whose name it contains, so it is counted in both when it names two places AND when one row's name sits inside another's. So a shorter name sitting inside a longer one carries the longer one’s keywords too, and those two rows are not independent places. Rows rank names and do not sum to a metro total. Ad-equivalent value is Σ volume × CPC — a ceiling on what the traffic would cost to buy, not spend and not revenue.

**Mason** alone carries 204,420 searches a month across 45 keywords, worth $350.9K a month at Google's posted prices. If your pages only ever say "Cincinnati", that is demand you are not addressing.

## The money

Attention in this city has a spot price, and Google publishes it: the cost per ad click. Here's what a customer's attention trades for in Cincinnati.

"CINCINNATI ALLSTATE AGENTS" · COST OF ONE AD CLICK

$444.31

One click. Not a customer — a *click*. That's what a single visit from this search trades for in Cincinnati right now.

### Every keyword has a price tag

The 3,410 of 3,538 tracked keywords Google Ads returns a cost-per-click for, on a log scale. Amber gets deeper as the click gets pricier.

Strip plot of 3410 tracked keywords by cost per click, log scale. Cheapest: applebee's cincinnati ohio at $0.01. Most expensive: cincinnati allstate agents at $444.31.

### The price board

The 3,410 of 3,538 tracked keywords Google Ads returns a cost-per-click for. Volume and CPC are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week.

| # | KEYWORD | CPC | SEARCHES/MO | COST TO BUY ALL | Δ VS. LAST PULL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | cincinnati allstate agents · OTHER | $444.31 | 10 | $4.4K | — |
| 2 | cincinnati accident attorney · LEGAL | $284.03 | 10 | $2.8K | — |
| 3 | basement contractor cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $274.96 | 10 | $2.7K | — |
| 4 | car accident lawyer cincinnati · LEGAL | $251.84 | 320 | $80.6K | — |
| 5 | we buy houses cincinnati ohio · OTHER | $183.65 | 90 | $16.5K | — |
| 6 | commercial plumbers in cincinnati ohio · HOME SERVICES | $177.97 | 10 | $1.8K | — |
| 7 | siegel roofing cincinnati ohio · HOME SERVICES | $174.31 | 10 | $1.7K | — |
| 8 | termite control cincinnati · OTHER | $157.11 | 10 | $1.6K | — |
| 9 | 24 hour plumber cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $143.72 | 20 | $2.9K | — |
| 10 | personal injury lawyer near me · LEGAL | $126.89 | 1,900 | $241.1K | — |
| 11 | wasp nest removal cincinnati · OTHER | $125.17 | 10 | $1.3K | — |
| 12 | flooring contractors cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $113.16 | 10 | $1.1K | — |
| 13 | mosquito treatment cincinnati · OTHER | $111.97 | 10 | $1.1K | — |
| 14 | cincinnati property twins · OTHER | $111.45 | 260 | $29.0K | — |
| 15 | skylights cincinnati · OTHER | $108.37 | 10 | $1.1K | — |
| 16 | clarke contractors cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $107.31 | 10 | $1.1K | — |
| 17 | bath remodel cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $107.21 | 10 | $1.1K | — |
| 18 | insurance agents cincinnati ohio · PROFESSIONAL SERVICES | $104.74 | 40 | $4.2K | — |
| 19 | termites cincinnati · OTHER | $101.23 | 10 | $1.0K | — |
| 20 | aptive cincinnati · OTHER | $100.30 | 10 | $1.0K | — |
| 21 | hercules moving cincinnati · OTHER | $88.01 | 20 | $1.8K | — |
| 22 | garage repair cincinnati · OTHER | $86.12 | 10 | $861 | — |
| 23 | cincinnati commercial roofing · HOME SERVICES | $85.93 | 210 | $18.0K | — |
| 24 | flooring installation cincinnati · OTHER | $85.11 | 20 | $1.7K | — |
| 25 | at your service roofing cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $84.01 | 10 | $840 | — |
| 26 | best hvac cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $82.44 | 10 | $824 | — |
| 27 | emergency plumber near me · HOME SERVICES | $79.48 | 1,300 | $103.3K | — |
| 28 | slab jacking cincinnati · OTHER | $78.68 | 10 | $787 | — |
| 29 | heating and cooling services cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $77.36 | 10 | $774 | — |
| 30 | moving and storage cincinnati · OTHER | $76.33 | 10 | $763 | — |
| 31 | cincinnati window replacement · OTHER | $74.90 | 390 | $29.2K | — |
| 32 | cheap carpet cincinnati · OTHER | $73.72 | 10 | $737 | — |
| 33 | new windows cincinnati · OTHER | $73.71 | 10 | $737 | — |
| 34 | braun heating & air conditioning cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $71.68 | 10 | $717 | — |
| 35 | trugreen lawn care cincinnati ohio · HOME SERVICES | $71.39 | 10 | $714 | — |
| 36 | cincinnati window companies · OTHER | $71.04 | 210 | $14.9K | — |
| 37 | hvac service cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $70.93 | 40 | $2.8K | — |
| 38 | cincinnati accident lawyers · LEGAL | $70.06 | 20 | $1.4K | — |
| 39 | insurance brokers cincinnati · OTHER | $69.19 | 50 | $3.5K | — |
| 40 | dui lawyer cincinnati · LEGAL | $68.16 | 480 | $32.7K | — |
| 41 | cincinnati water heater repair · OTHER | $67.69 | 90 | $6.1K | — |
| 42 | injury attorney cincinnati · LEGAL | $67.55 | 480 | $32.4K | — |
| 43 | emergency plumber cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $66.77 | 140 | $9.3K | — |
| 44 | termite inspection cincinnati · OTHER | $65.44 | 20 | $1.3K | — |
| 45 | tax advisor cincinnati · OTHER | $63.30 | 20 | $1.3K | — |
| 46 | best window company cincinnati · OTHER | $61.75 | 10 | $618 | — |
| 47 | locksmith near me cincinnati ohio · HOME SERVICES | $61.34 | 10 | $613 | — |
| 48 | safe movers cincinnati · OTHER | $60.59 | 10 | $606 | — |
| 49 | advantage roofing cincinnati · HOME SERVICES | $60.39 | 40 | $2.4K | — |
| 50 | air conditioning repair cincinnati oh · HOME SERVICES | $60.04 | 30 | $1.8K | — |

Source: [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) search volume and cost-per-click via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA, twelve-month averages · pulled September 8, 2026. Bar length is CPC on a linear scale. "Cost to buy all" is searches × CPC — what the traffic would cost at Google's posted price if every search became a click, which is a ceiling, not a forecast. Δ compares each keyword's CPC against the Aug 30 pull; Google refreshes these figures roughly monthly, so most rows do not move between weekly pulls.

### Why would anyone pay $444 a click?

The businesses bidding here keep bidding. Here's the math that makes a $444 click rational, using local services industry benchmarks.

100 clicks bought −$44,431

20 become phone calls (20% call rate, benchmark)

5 become new customers (25% close, benchmark)

Revenue from those 5 new customers +$9,000 · 0.2× the spend

Call and close rates are vertical benchmarks, not promises. But the principle sets every price on the board: **a click costs what the customer behind it is worth.** Bounce rate is priced in.

ONE CUSTOMER FUNDS

How many clicks a single customer's revenue buys back, at that keyword's CPC. Customer values are industry benchmarks.

cincinnati accident attorney

~$25,000 case fee (benchmark) · $284.03/click

88 clicks

basement contractor cincinnati

~$9,500 job value (benchmark) · $274.96/click

34 clicks

coldiron dermatology cincinnati

~$3,200 patient value (benchmark) · $51.12/click

62 clicks

45226 homes for sale

~$9,000 commission (benchmark) · $0.01/click

900,000 clicks

Source: CPC: [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) search volume and cost-per-click via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA, twelve-month averages · pulled September 8, 2026. Call rate, close rate and customer value are industry benchmarks hardcoded in this page — not measured for this metro, and not for your business. Spend, revenue and the multiple are all products of that one CPC and those assumptions.

Same market, different economies. This is why "is $X a click expensive?" has no answer without knowing what a customer is worth to *you*.

### What owning a vertical costs

Monthly ad-equivalent value of all clicks in each vertical — what you'd pay Google to buy the demand you could rank for.

Home Services $1,347,000/mo

Food & Dining $1,020,000/mo

Health & Wellness $563,000/mo

Legal $501,000/mo

Attractions $304,000/mo

Other $212,000/mo

Ranking organically doesn't pay that bill — it makes it someone else's.

## The fight

A market this valuable doesn't sit unclaimed. Here's who holds Cincinnati's front page, who's climbing, who's slipping — and where the seats are still empty.

20%

of Cincinnati's tracked page-one slots are held by one of the 40 national directories we name. The other 80% is everything else — local businesses, and national brands we do not classify.

Waffle chart: 20 of 100 tracked page-one slots held by one of 40 named national directories, 80 by everything else.

out-of-town directories · 20 everything else · 80

Source: Google organic results via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), 21 tracked keywords anchored on the Cincinnati coordinate · pulled September 8, 2026. "Directory" means the domain's registrable label matches one of 40 named national directory brands; everything else is counted as the remainder, which includes national brands we do not classify.

### Two pulls of "plumber near me"

Page-one position, last pull vs. this one: **www.geiler.com moved ▼ 4 spots**. The chart grows a column with every pull as the archive builds.

Bump chart of page-one positions for plumber near me between Aug 30 and Sep 8: www.geiler.com moved from position 5 → 9.

### This week's movers

Biggest changes between the Aug 30 and Sep 8 pulls.

▲ 19

24/7 Auto Repair

map rank for "auto repair"

#20 → #1

▼ 14

The Davidson

map rank for "restaurant"

#5 → #19

▼ 4

www.geiler.com

plumber near me

#5 → #9

▼ 4

thomasgalbraith.com

3 queries — hvac service cincinnati · plumber near me · emergency plumber cincinnati

0 up · 3 down

NEW

m.yelp.com

restaurants near me · new to page one

— → #1

NEW

www.reddit.com

plumber near me · new to page one

— → #2

▲ 24

1-Tom-Plumber

reviews

7,379 → 7,403

▲ 24

Stop N Go

reviews

54 → 78

▼ 0.1★

A. All Valley Plumbing

rating

4.2★ → 4.1★

▼ 14

Cincinnati Mobile Mechanics

map rank for "auto repair"

#6 → #20

Movement = week-over-week snapshot diff · arrows and signed numbers, always

### Most contested keywords

Who currently leads the top 6 fights worth having. Leader = top organic result; OPEN RACE = no [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack) on the page.

restaurants near me

823,000 searches/mo

m.yelp.com AGGREGATOR

pizza near me

74,000 searches/mo

www.firesidepizzawalnuthills.com LOCAL

grocery store near me

40,500 searches/mo

www.yelp.com AGGREGATOR

urgent care near me

33,100 searches/mo

www.mercy.com LOCAL

cincinnati art museum

27,100 searches/mo

www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org OPEN RACE

dentist near me

14,800 searches/mo

www.cincinnatidentalservices.com LOCAL

NO MAP PACK

**7 of the 21 keywords we track show no map pack at all.** Google is answering those with links, not a map — so the way in is a page, not a profile. [See what that takes](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/cincinnati#move).

### What page one is made of

Share of 21 tracked keywords showing each [SERP feature](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#serp-feature).

People Also Ask 95%

Map pack 67%

Source: Google organic results via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), 21 tracked keywords anchored on the Cincinnati coordinate · pulled September 8, 2026. Feature presence as Google returned it; a featured snippet appeared on none of these SERPs and paid results on 2%, so neither is charted.

[People Also Ask](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#people-also-ask) boxes show on **95%** of these searches — answer those questions and you're on page one twice.

ANATOMY OF A #1

1-Tom-Plumber

Top-rated of 98 tracked Plumber

Rating 5.0 ★ (cat. median 4.8)

Reviews 7,403 (median 109)

Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) results via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA, deduped by place\_id · pulled September 8, 2026. Each category search returns at most 100 results, so this is a ceiling on what we see, not a census of the metro.

None of this is magic. It's 67.9× the category's median review count. The playbook is public.

### Ranking with no website

Of the 1,316 businesses we track in Cincinnati's map results, **233** have no website at all — 18% of the field, showing up on reputation alone.

233

BUSINESSES RANKING WITHOUT A SITE

The most-reviewed of them has **1,320 reviews** and a 4.5 rating. If they are beating you, it is not because of their website.

Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) results via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA, deduped by place\_id · pulled September 8, 2026. Each category search returns at most 100 results, so this is a ceiling on what we see, not a census of the metro. "No website" is the absence of a site link on the Google listing.

### Who holds the map pack

35 businesses hold the 42 pack seats across the 14 tracked keywords that return a map pack. # is the best position each held; seats counts the keywords they appear on.

#1

O'Connor, Acciani & Levy

4.7 ★ · 1,400 reviews

3 SEATS

#2

Isaacs & Isaacs Law Firm

4.9 ★ · 338 reviews

3 SEATS

#2

Buckeye Law Group

4.9 ★ · 255 reviews

3 SEATS

#1

A+ Plumbing

4.9 ★ · 1,100 reviews

2 SEATS

#1

Jefferson Social

4.1 ★ · 1,300 reviews

1 SEAT

#1

Reupert Heating & Air Conditioning

4.9 ★ · 673 reviews

1 SEAT

#1

Seven Star Dental

4.9 ★ · 425 reviews

1 SEAT

#1

Brick'd Pizza

3.4 ★ · 49 reviews

1 SEAT

A DIFFERENT POOL

**8 of the 35 businesses holding these seats never appear in the category rosters we pull for Cincinnati.** That gap is a property of OUR roster, not of Google: every metro pulls the same 14 categories, and where they do not overlap the tracked keywords the share runs to 100% before Google is consulted. It says these packs were not measured by our category pull — not that categories do not matter.

Source: Google local pack via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), 14 tracked keywords anchored on the Cincinnati metro coordinate, September 8, 2026. Rank is position within the pack as returned, not a ranking claim. Businesses are keyed on the cid Google returns; ratings and review counts are the listing's own, read once and not averaged.

### Nobody has claimed these

Of the 1,316 businesses we track in Cincinnati's map results, **216** are ranking on a listing no owner has claimed — 16% of the field, with nobody able to edit the hours, the category or the photos.

216

UNCLAIMED LISTINGS RANKING TODAY

The most-reviewed of them has **16,843 reviews** and a 4.5 rating and still nobody controls the profile. Claiming one is free.

Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) results via [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Cincinnati DMA, deduped by place\_id · pulled September 8, 2026. Each category search returns at most 100 results, so this is a ceiling on what we see, not a census of the metro. "Unclaimed" is Google's own flag on the listing.

## The city itself

Search demand doesn't come from nowhere. What follows is the rest of what we track about Cincinnati — each line from a named source, and absent where we have none.

309K

PEOPLE

Median age 32.7. Every one of them picks businesses from a search box — Chapter 1's demand is this population talking.

$162,300

MEDIAN HOME VALUE

What the typical owner in the city proper says the home is worth — the city, not the metro.

$814

MEDIAN RENT / MO

Median gross rent in the city proper — rent plus the utilities the tenant pays.

Source: US Census Bureau, [American Community Survey](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs) 5-year estimates (2021 release), place level — Cincinnati city proper, not the metro; fetched 2026-09-08. Population, median age, home value and rent all come from this one block; nothing on these cards is typed in.

### Cincinnati vs. the nation

Three household figures — the city proper against the whole country, from the same survey on both sides.

| | CINCINNATI | UNITED STATES | DIFFERENCE |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median household income | $45,235 a year | $69,021 | −34% |
| Median home value | $162,300 | $244,900 | −34% |
| Median gross rent | $814 a month | $1,163 | −30% |

Source: both sides US Census Bureau, [American Community Survey](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs) 5-year estimates, 2021 release (2017–2021) — the city at place level (Cincinnati city proper, not the metro; fetched 2026-09-08) and the nation as one geography (fetched 2026-09-09). Difference is the city over the national figure, computed. Unemployment, taxes, power and broadband are not here: no fetched source on both sides.

### The rest of the ledger

Everything else we track about living and working here — one line each, open what you need.

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METHODOLOGY

Search volume, cost-per-click and SERP data from DataForSEO, collected September 8, 2026. Business listings, ratings and map positions from a live read of Google Maps in the same pull. Rank movement is a diff against the previous pull of our snapshot archive. Ad-equivalent value is searches × CPC — it prices the traffic, not your revenue. Call rates, close rates, and customer values in the unit-economics section are industry benchmarks, not measurements. Every other module on this page renders only where the underlying figure exists; where it does not, the module is absent rather than estimated.

Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking local search since 2010. The Cincinnati edition comes from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. If a number here is wrong, [tell us](https://seobandwagon.com/contact).

## Your move

1.98M

SEARCHES IN PLAY / MO

$444

PRICIEST CLICK

20%

PAGE ONE DIRECTORY SHARE

7 of 21

TRACKED SERPS WITH NO MAP PACK

4 numbers, one conclusion: the demand is real, the price of ignoring it compounds, and the leaderboard is not settled. The only question the ledger can't answer is whether you're on it.

STEP 1 · FREE

### See where you stand

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[Scan your site free](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/cincinnati#scan)

STEP 2 · IF YOU'RE ON THE MAP

### Claim your seat

7 of the 21 contested keywords show no map pack at all — Google answers those with links, not a map.

[Claim your business](https://business.google.com/)

STEP 3 · EVERY PULL

### Read the next edition

The ledger reprints every week — movers, price changes, and open seats, in your inbox before your competitors read it.

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## Linked ledgers

The three nearest tracked metros on the map, and the one our data says behaves most like this one.

[NEAREST · 89 MI Louisville, KY 1,505,710 searches/mo · 1,288 listings](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/louisville) [NEAREST · 99 MI Indianapolis, IN 2,594,010 searches/mo · 1,311 listings](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/indianapolis) [NEAREST · 100 MI Columbus, OH 2,257,720 searches/mo · 1,257 listings](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/columbus) [CLOSEST LOOKALIKE Charleston, SC 1,420,220 searches/mo · 1,273 listings](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/charleston)

Linked within the 54 metros we track, and nowhere else. Distance is straight-line between each metro's single anchor point — a downtown coordinate, not a centroid. Lookalike is the closest match on four measured features — search volume, ad prices, listing density and review depth — excluding the neighbours above and everything inside 500 km, so it surfaces a market you would not otherwise think to compare. Recomputed on every build, so it moves as the markets do. SRC: the 54-metro collection, pulled across September 8, 2026 and the day either side · [all metros →](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo#cities)

GO DEEPER · THE LEDGER BY VERTICAL

[FOOD & DINING 1.4M/mo](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/cincinnati/food-dining) [HEALTH & WELLNESS 90K/mo](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/cincinnati/health-wellness) [HOME SERVICES 56K/mo](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/cincinnati/home-services) [ENTERTAINMENT 55K/mo](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/cincinnati/entertainment) [LEGAL 10K/mo](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/cincinnati/legal)

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