THE SEARCH LEDGER · SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH · HOME SERVICES
Every month Salt Lake City types 53,400 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 JAN and lowest in NOV.
SRC: Google Trends relative interest for the Home Services category in Salt Lake City — 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 134 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is “emergency plumber near me” at $127.14.
| # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plumber near me | 8,100 | $54.70 | 19 | transactional |
| 2 | locksmith near me | 6,600 | $19.55 | 20 | transactional |
| 3 | the roof restaurant slc | 5,400 | $7.31 | 0 | commercial |
| 4 | electrician near me | 3,600 | $28.57 | 31 | transactional |
| 5 | garage door repair near me | 2,400 | $46.96 | 9 | transactional |
| 6 | ac repair near me | 1,900 | $71.36 | 10 | transactional |
| 7 | pest control near me | 1,900 | $37.01 | 40 | transactional |
| 8 | plumber slc | 1,600 | $50.33 | 28 | commercial |
| 9 | plumbers in salt lake city utah | 1,600 | $50.33 | 21 | commercial |
| 10 | locksmith slc | 1,600 | $20.25 | 6 | commercial |
| 11 | appliance repair near me | 1,600 | $18.04 | 33 | transactional |
| 12 | handyman near me | 1,300 | $8.24 | 11 | transactional |
| 13 | emergency plumber near me | 1,000 | $127.14 | 0 | transactional |
| 14 | landscaping near me | 1,000 | $9.35 | 19 | transactional |
| 15 | house cleaning near me | 880 | $12.38 | 15 | transactional |
| 16 | pest control slc | 720 | $29.22 | 16 | commercial |
| 17 | salt lake exterminator | 720 | $29.22 | 16 | commercial |
| 18 | roof restaurant slc | 720 | $2.75 | 0 | commercial |
| 19 | appliance repair slc | 590 | $16.27 | 0 | commercial |
| 20 | hvac repair near me | 590 | $69.92 | 39 | transactional |
SRC: DataForSEO, Salt Lake City 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.
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, Salt Lake City 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.
| RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Whipple Service Champions | 4.7 ★ | 15,376 | Plumber | YES |
| #2 | Whipple Service Champions | 4.7 ★ | 15,376 | Air conditioning repair service | YES |
| #3 | SameDay Heating & Air, Plumbing, and Electrical | 4.8 ★ | 10,175 | Plumber | YES |
| #4 | SameDay Heating & Air, Plumbing, and Electrical | 4.8 ★ | 10,175 | Air conditioning repair service | YES |
| #5 | Scott Hale Plumbing, Drains, Heating & Air | 4.7 ★ | 7,174 | Plumber | YES |
| #6 | Black Diamond Experts, Electric, Plumbing, HVAC | 4.8 ★ | 6,515 | Plumber | YES |
| #7 | Black Diamond Experts, Electric, Plumbing, HVAC | 4.8 ★ | 6,515 | Air conditioning repair service | YES |
| #8 | Action Plumbing, Heating, Air & Electric | 4.5 ★ | 6,095 | Plumber | YES |
| #9 | YES! Air Conditioning, Heating, Plumbing and Electric | 4.7 ★ | 4,705 | Air conditioning repair service | YES |
| #10 | Valley Plumbing Heating & Cooling | 4.8 ★ | 3,216 | Plumber | YES |
| #11 | Just Right Plumbing, Heating, & Cooling | 4.8 ★ | 3,045 | Plumber | YES |
| #12 | Just Right Plumbing, Heating, & Cooling | 4.8 ★ | 3,045 | HVAC contractor | YES |
SRC: Google Maps listings, DataForSEO, Salt Lake City 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, Salt Lake City metro, Aug 30, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set.
People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Salt Lake City 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?
Who are the best plumbers in Salt Lake City?
How much an hour should a plumber charge?
What is the $5000 AC rule?
What is the average cost of a HVAC service call?
What is the most common AC repair?
How expensive is it to fix an AC unit?
SRC: Google People Also Ask, DataForSEO, Salt Lake City 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.
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HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE
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.
Salt Lake City, Utah · Home Services · 134 keywords · collected Aug 30, 2026
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