Keyword Research Tool
Free Moncton Keyword Research: Volume, Difficulty, CPC
Estimated monthly search volume, keyword difficulty, and CPC data for businesses, researchers, journalists, and curious Monctonians looking to understand how New Brunswick's largest metropolitan area searches.
Our aim is to democratize access to SEO data in Moncton so trades, professionals, bloggers, policy writers, and SMBs can improve their organic search visibility or see how the city's residents, students, and visitors search with first-hand agency data.
Moncton occupies a unique position in Canada's search landscape: it's the retail and services anchor for all three Maritime provinces, the cultural and economic centre of Acadian New Brunswick (Canada's only officially bilingual province), and the gateway to Hopewell Rocks, one of the most-searched tourism destinations in Atlantic Canada at 15,000 searches/mo. Add in unusually deep commercial brand-search demand (Costco Moncton alone pulls 26,000/mo, bigger than any single retail keyword in our Burnaby dataset), a tri-city real estate market spanning Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview, and an active personal-injury legal market that BC's no-fault system would never produce, and Moncton generates one of the most distinct keyword profiles in our Canadian library. For the province-wide picture, see our New Brunswick keyword dataset.
Use cases
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Content ideas
If you're a contractor in Moncton, "snow removal moncton" is 150/mo at KD 27, moderate competition but a critical winter service in a city that averages 300+ cm of snowfall. "Commercial roofing moncton" and "residential roofing moncton" are both 100/mo with no difficulty score (empty SERPs). "Metal roofing moncton" is 90/mo at KD 27, common in Atlantic Canada due to durability against snow load. For tourism content, the Hopewell Rocks tide schedule cluster is wildly under-served: "hopewell rocks tides" at 1,800/mo, "hopewell rocks tide schedule" at 900, "hopewell rocks high tide" at 250, "hopewell rocks low tide" at 200, "hopewell rocks tide times" at 200, plus a French sibling "billets pour hopewell rocks" at 150/mo. Anyone running an Atlantic Canada travel blog with proper Bay of Fundy tide content can dominate.
Business expansion
Moncton's real estate SERPs are some of the easiest to crack in Canada. "Houses for sale moncton" gets 4,300 searches/mo at KD 2. "House for sale moncton" is 4,200 at KD 2. "MLS Moncton" pulls 4,000/mo at KD 5. "Moncton real estate" is 1,900 at KD 5. "Realtor moncton" is 2,100/mo at KD 22. The suburban tri-city demand is also wide open: "houses for sale riverview nb" at 600/mo (KD 0), "houses for sale in riverview nb" at 400 (KD 0), "houses for sale in dieppe nb" at 150 (KD 0), and a French sibling "maison à vendre dieppe nb" at 150/mo (KD 0). Local realtors with proper Moncton + Dieppe + Riverview neighbourhood pages can capture this entire cluster from the national portals.
For Moncton bloggers
Moncton is one of the deepest tourism content opportunities in our entire Canadian library. "Hopewell Rocks" pulls 15,000 searches/mo at KD 8, bigger than Halifax Public Library or Burnaby Village Museum, and the search demand goes way deeper than the headline keyword: Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park (2,700), Hopewell Rocks Tides (1,800), Hopewell Rocks Tickets (1,000), Hopewell Rocks Photos (500), Hopewell Rocks Camping (150), Hopewell Rocks Kayaking (100). The Magnetic Hill cluster is a parallel goldmine: Magnetic Hill at 2,900/mo, Magnetic Hill Zoo at 1,500, Magnetic Hill Winery at 1,800, Magnetic Hill Moncton at 1,400, "how does magnetic hill work" at 150/mo (KD 20, an explainer post writes itself). Add the Moncton Zoo (1,900), the tidal bore on the Petitcodiac River at 1,100/mo, Capitol Theatre Moncton at 1,300, and the Butterfly World at 350, and you have an entire Atlantic Canada travel content cluster sitting mostly empty.
For startups & entrepreneurs
Moncton has unusually clean service-sector niches with low difficulty and moderate-to-high CPCs. "Moncton web design" is 200/mo at KD 51 with a $4.00 CPC, KD is high but the SERP is dominated by directory aggregators. "Web design moncton" is 150/mo with no difficulty score. "Cosmetic dentist moncton" is 20/mo with no difficulty score. "Snow removal moncton" at 150 (KD 27) shows real seasonal urgency in a city that gets serious winter snowfall. "Auto insurance moncton" is 90/mo at KD 1 with a $4.00 CPC, an open SERP for a high-value commercial keyword. "Cheapest car insurance moncton" is 40/mo at KD 0 with $3.00 CPC. For a startup or SMB willing to invest in proper service pages, Moncton's combination of retail-anchor traffic, lower competitive density than Halifax or Burnaby, and the bilingual French signal makes it one of the most under-served secondary markets in Canada.
For researchers & journalists
Moncton produces a uniquely bilingual search profile reflecting New Brunswick's status as Canada's only officially bilingual province and Moncton's role as the cultural heart of Acadian Canada. "Meteo moncton" pulls 1,900/mo and "météo à moncton" another 1,200, French weather demand separate from the 33,000/mo combined English signal (Moncton weather 22,000 + weather Moncton 11,000). "Université de Moncton" at 1,500/mo (with the unaccented variant at 350 more) is one of Canada's largest French-language universities. "Wildcats de Moncton" at 300/mo shows the French-language demand for QMJHL hockey coverage. "Courriel université de moncton" (200), "heure moncton" (400), "emploi dieppe nb" (70), "maison à vendre dieppe nb" (150): the bilingual signal runs deep across every search category. Moncton court docket at 1,000/mo (KD 1) reflects the city's role as a regional judicial centre. Moncton hospital pulls 1,800/mo + Moncton city hospital 1,100 + the Moncton hospital 1,000, collectively the deepest single-hospital search cluster in any Atlantic city dataset.
For service professionals
Moncton has an active personal-injury legal market that BC's no-fault ICBC system would never produce. MacGillivray Law Moncton pulls 200/mo (KD 1) by brand alone, a regional NB plaintiff-side firm. Car accident lawyer moncton is 200/mo at KD 28. Injury lawyer moncton is 150/mo at KD 26 with a $9.00 CPC (one of the highest CPCs in the entire dataset). The long tail goes deep: motorcycle accident, wrongful death, bicycle accident, truck accident, long-term disability, pedestrian accident, slip and fall, medical malpractice, all show standalone Moncton search demand even at 60-90 monthly volume. Insurance is also active: car insurance moncton at 200/mo with $4.50 CPC, house insurance moncton at 150 with $4.50 CPC, home insurance moncton at 90 with $6.00 CPC, TD insurance moncton at 150 with $1.90 CPC. The retail and auto-dealership cluster is unmatched in Atlantic Canada: Costco Moncton 26,000, Walmart Moncton 11,000, Home Depot Moncton 9,100, Princess Auto 6,300, plus 20+ distinct car dealership brand searches in the top 100. Moncton is the retail anchor for all three Maritime provinces.
Table legend:
- Industry: clustered keyword under inherent topic.
- Keyword: the terms typed in Google's search box.
- Volume: estimated monthly search volume (usually higher).
- KD: 10-30 easier to rank, 30-60 medium competition, 60-100 high competition.
- CPC: cost-per-click in paid search (in USD), useful as a proxy for commercial intent and competitive density.
| Industry | Keyword | Volume | KD | CPC ($) |
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Table credits: Keyword data powered by Ahrefs.com. Compiled and organized by Visibility Drip, an SEO company serving Moncton.
How the data is compiled
Methodology & refresh cadence
Every keyword in this dataset is pulled from Ahrefs' live search database, filtered for Moncton geographic intent, then manually organized by industry.
Some cells are intentionally left blank. When Ahrefs does not surface a reliable estimate for a specific keyword (usually low-volume or brand-new terms), we preserve the empty cell rather than substitute a value. Blanks represent "unknown", not "zero".
Last updated: 2026-05-29. We refresh these datasets periodically. If you need up-to-the-day data for a specific market or industry, reach out and we'll pull a custom export.