THE SEARCH LEDGER · PHOENIX, ARIZONA · HOME SERVICES
Every month Phoenix types 111,740 home services searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them.
Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in SEP and lowest in NOV.
SRC: Google Trends relative interest for the Home Services category in Phoenix — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword.
The 20 highest-volume of 260 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is “emergency plumber near me” at $106.22.
| # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plumber near me | 14,800 | $68.24 | 19 | transactional |
| 2 | locksmith near me | 12,100 | $21.21 | 20 | transactional |
| 3 | ac repair near me | 8,100 | $81.57 | 10 | transactional |
| 4 | arizona registrar of contractors phoenix az | 5,400 | $8.94 | 21 | commercial |
| 5 | electrician near me | 5,400 | $27.09 | 31 | transactional |
| 6 | appliance repair near me | 4,400 | $13.90 | 33 | transactional |
| 7 | phoenix plumber | 3,600 | $69.12 | 16 | commercial |
| 8 | garage door repair near me | 3,600 | $65.75 | 9 | transactional |
| 9 | phoenix pest control | 2,900 | $45.24 | 3 | commercial |
| 10 | phoenix locksmith | 2,900 | $22.99 | 0 | commercial |
| 11 | red roof inn phoenix midtown | 2,900 | $2.77 | navigational | |
| 12 | red roof plus+ phoenix west | 2,900 | $2.55 | branded | |
| 13 | pest control near me | 2,900 | $47.41 | 40 | transactional |
| 14 | handyman near me | 2,400 | $14.59 | 11 | transactional |
| 15 | landscaping near me | 2,400 | $11.61 | 19 | transactional |
| 16 | emergency plumber near me | 1,900 | $106.22 | 0 | transactional |
| 17 | house cleaning near me | 1,900 | $11.84 | 15 | transactional |
| 18 | phoenix landscaping | 1,600 | $11.01 | 0 | commercial |
| 19 | phoenix ac repair | 1,600 | $88.40 | 11 | commercial |
| 20 | roofing companies phoenix | 1,600 | $24.15 | 22 | commercial |
SRC: DataForSEO, Phoenix metro, Aug 30, 2026. Volume and CPC are Google Ads twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored.
Live position tracking for 3 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the map pack, and who holds page one.
SRC: DataForSEO, Phoenix metro, Aug 30, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track.
The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. 1 of them has no website at all.
| RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Parker & Sons | 4.7 ★ | 34,811 | Plumber | YES |
| #2 | Parker & Sons | 4.7 ★ | 34,811 | Air conditioning repair service | YES |
| #3 | Goettl Air Conditioning and Plumbing - Phoenix AZ | 4.7 ★ | 14,364 | Air conditioning repair service | YES |
| #4 | Day & Night Air Conditioning, Heating, & Plumbing | 4.9 ★ | 9,744 | HVAC contractor | YES |
| #5 | Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical | 4.7 ★ | 6,720 | Air conditioning repair service | YES |
| #6 | George Brazil Air Conditioning & Heating | 4.7 ★ | 5,639 | Air conditioning repair service | YES |
| #7 | Service Experts Tempe | 4.7 ★ | 5,230 | NO SITE | |
| #8 | Plumbing Masters | 4.8 ★ | 4,199 | Plumber | YES |
| #9 | The Plumber Guy | 4.9 ★ | 3,698 | Plumber | YES |
| #10 | Alaskan Air Conditioning & Heating | 4.7 ★ | 2,798 | Air conditioning repair service | YES |
| #11 | ASAP Plumbing | 4.7 ★ | 2,329 | Plumber | YES |
| #12 | Benjamin Franklin Plumbing of Phoenix, AZ | 4.8 ★ | 1,988 | Plumber | YES |
SRC: Google Maps listings, DataForSEO, Phoenix metro, Aug 30, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim.
Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for.
SRC: DataForSEO, Phoenix metro, Aug 30, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set.
People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Phoenix home services results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing.
How much is a plumber for 2 hours?
How to tell if a plumber is ripping you off?
How much an hour should a plumber charge?
How do I find a good plumber?
What is the $5000 AC rule?
What is the most common AC repair?
What is the average cost of a HVAC service call?
How expensive is it to fix an AC unit?
SRC: Google People Also Ask, DataForSEO, Phoenix metro, Aug 30, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here.
Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today.
Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand.
HOME SERVICES IN OTHER METROS
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Every figure is collected, not estimated. Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Aug 30, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled.
Phoenix, Arizona · Home Services · 260 keywords · collected Aug 30, 2026
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