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Get results in days, not monthsResults in days, not monthsA median rent of $949 and a median home value of $128,800 describe a city where households compare before they commit, and 17.8% of residents live below the poverty line. Add a base that trains airmen and NATO pilots, a university campus and a hospital system, and the audience splits into groups that behave differently: lifelong residents who want a fair deal and newcomers who want an answer fast.
GetPhound plans and manages Google Ads for Wichita Falls businesses, from Sikes Senter to the Midwestern State University campus, adds Bing Ads and Meta Ads (Facebook and Instagram) where they fit, tracks calls and forms and sends a monthly report from a dedicated account manager. There is no contract, and nothing is billed just to set an account up.
The audience in numbers
City Ad Competition Index
37.5/ 100
Rank 139 out of 203 in Texas
Figures: ACS 2018-2022, Census population estimates, County Business Patterns 2022. A bar places Wichita Falls among the 203 Texas cities in this set and nowhere else. How it is scored: methodology. As of October 2026.
How people act on an ad
Median household income is $55,584 and 43.7% of households rent, so many shoppers weigh each purchase. Ads that say what a service includes, how long it takes and how an estimate works answer the question that would otherwise end the visit, and a landing page that repeats those facts keeps the promise. Google Ads in Wichita Falls rewards that kind of honesty. Loud claims may draw clicks in this market, yet rarely draw customers, and a monthly report that follows calls rather than clicks shows the difference clearly.
Sheppard Air Force Base trains officers, airmen and civilians in technical fields and runs the program that trains NATO fighter pilots, so a stream of people arrives and leaves. Newcomers search for lodging, food, storage, laundry and car help soon after they land, and ad groups built around those first-week needs can run with a location radius near the base and short, direct text. Because stays are short, a business should expect these customers to book quickly or not at all, which favors ads with a phone number and a same-day answer over long explanations.
The median age is 32.8, 22.8% of residents are under 18 and 14% are 65 or older. Spanish is spoken at home by 11% and 7% were born abroad, both below the typical Texas city, so Spanish ads are a test for businesses that already serve those customers, not a default. The report shows whether the test earns calls.
Just 4.1% of workers commute 45 minutes or more and 6.5% work from home, in a city of 72.233 square miles at 1,419 residents per square mile. A tight radius around a shop is often enough, and leaving out distant areas keeps the budget from paying for searches the business could never fill. Because the Oklahoma line is about 15 miles north, a radius that reaches across it is a test to run, not an assumption to make.
Campaign plan
What is included, in plain words
Roofers, auto shops, dentists and home-service companies write ad text that names the job, the service area and what the visit covers, and send clicks to a page that shows the steps. With 17.8% of residents below the poverty line, a straight explanation earns more trust than a slogan.
Near Sheppard Air Force Base
Hotels, restaurants, laundries, storage firms and car services near Sheppard Air Force Base run a small campaign aimed at the first days after arrival, with distance in the headline and a phone number that is answered. Calls are tracked, so the report shows which service earned them.
Midwestern State University
Landlords, tutors, print shops and food businesses near Midwestern State University run campaigns that start before each term and stop when it begins. Separate budgets for each term make it easy to compare what each one brought in.
Hotter'N Hell Hundred weekend
Hotels, restaurants and bike shops raise bids for the days around the Hotter'N Hell Hundred, which draws roughly 10,000 to 14,000 riders in August, and lower them afterward. The campaign points to a page with event-weekend hours and distance to the start.
Medical, accounting and law
Wichita County has 105 physicians' offices at twice the typical density, 30 accounting firms at 1.9 times and 54 law offices at 1.44 times. A practice in those fields tracks calls by service, keeps ad groups narrow and adds negative keywords for searches that never turn into appointments.
A second source of traffic
Beyond Google, Bing Ads supply another stream of search traffic, and Meta Ads (Facebook and Instagram) reach households near Lucy Park and Sikes Senter before they begin to search. Both are reported beside Google Ads so a business can drop whatever does not earn calls.
The plan below keeps careful local buyers, short-stay trainees from Sheppard Air Force Base and students at Midwestern State University in separate campaigns, so the budget and the message for each can be judged on their own.
Buyers and advertisers
Every ad bought by Wichita Falls companies runs inside a county auction, and Wichita County has 471 business locations in trades that buy search ads, a count that slipped 2.1%, and 80.3% of them have fewer than 10 employees while only 4.2% are large. With so few big rivals, paid search in Wichita Falls leaves room for small advertisers: an ad that is specific and a page that is honest can compete with ones backed by a larger budget, provided the account is watched closely enough to cut what does not work and feed what does.
The crowded categories are physicians' offices (105, twice the typical density, down 7.9%), accounting and CPA firms (30, 1.9 times), law offices (54, 1.44 times), insurance agencies (62, 1.32 times) and dentists (43, 1.19 times). Residential remodelers (24, up 71.4%) and real estate agents (24, up 41.2%) are growing, while heating and air-conditioning contractors (40) fell 16.7%. Each needs its own ad groups and negative keywords, and each deserves a landing page that speaks to that service alone instead of a general welcome page.
Resident workers include 7,597 in health care and social assistance (16.9%), 5,942 in retail trade (13.3%) and 4,764 in accommodation and food services (10.6%). Employers named by the Chamber of Commerce list include Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls Independent School District, United Regional Health Care System, Arconic and North Texas State Hospital, and vendors who sell to them can reach purchasing staff with business-hours ads.
Local workforce
What people do for work affects when they search and what they can pay for. The six biggest sectors for employed Wichita Falls residents are listed below.
| Sector | Share of employed residents |
|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 16.9% |
| Retail trade | 13.3% |
| Accommodation and food services | 10.6% |
| Education | 8.8% |
| Manufacturing | 7.8% |
| Construction | 6.2% |
Source: ACS 5-year estimates (2018-2022), employed civilians 16 and over. It follows residents wherever they work, including outside the city.
Rival bidders
County is as small as the Census gets for these counts, so each row covers Wichita County, not Wichita Falls alone. Density is shown against the median U.S. county: 1.0x is typical, 2.0x is twice as dense.
From County Business Patterns 2017 and 2022 (Census). Establishments with paid employees, whole county. Appearing in the table does not mean a business runs ads.
Location settings
With 102,482 residents spread across a wide footprint, named places give a campaign shape that a single city-wide circle cannot.
| Place | Targeting notes |
|---|---|
| Depot Square Historic District | A tight radius around the Farmers Market suits cafes and shops that want visitors who came for the trains and museums. |
| Newby-McMahon Building | Photo stops at the 1919 downtown landmark lead to coffee and lunch searches, so short weekday ad windows nearby fit. |
| Kemp Center for the Arts | Evening and weekend ads near 1300 Lamar Street can reach people before and after a show or exhibit. |
| Museum of North Texas History | A small radius around 720 Indiana reaches school groups and travelers who look for food next. |
| Lucy Park | On warm days families search for food and activities near the 170-acre park, so bids can rise for nearby restaurants. |
| Midwestern State University | A campus-sized location group, kept apart from the rest of town, shows how many calls the student market produces. |
| Sheppard Air Force Base | A radius around the base gives hotels, food and services a clear audience of trainees and families. |
| Sikes Senter | A mall that opened in 1974 and draws from surrounding towns lets nearby services add the shorter drive to ad text. |
| Hotter'N Hell Hundred | Race weekend in August justifies a scheduled bid change for lodging and food near the start. |
Each place name is informal, taken from municipal, county or regional publications.
Similar Texas markets
Peers are the nearest fit to Wichita Falls across population, income, age, renting, density, Spanish at home, seasonal housing and seniors. Pick a name to open its guide.
| City | Ad index | Population | Typical home value | Remote share | Long commutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita Falls, TX (this city) | 37.5 | 102,482 | $128,800 | 6.5% | 4.1% |
| Abilene, TX | 53 | 126,356 | $161,800 | 7.1% | 4% |
| Temple, TX | 13.8 | 83,473 | $191,300 | 8.8% | 9.5% |
| Longview, TX | 63.8 | 82,176 | $170,000 | 4.6% | 8.8% |
| Beaumont, TX | 39.9 | 114,573 | $150,400 | 3.6% | 6.7% |
| Conroe, TX | 43.3 | 92,475 | $262,500 | 8.9% | 18.9% |
Matching uses the eight traits above; these columns show the ones that bear most on ad targeting. Census ACS 2018-2022.
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Fees
The fee is flat, billed monthly, and depends only on how many platforms we run. No contract applies. Ad spend never passes through us: the platforms bill you for it. Above $10K a month in ad spend? Let us talk first.
Good to know
One flat fee per month: one platform runs $895, two cost $1,595 and all three come to $2,295. Nothing is signed. The platforms bill your click budget separately, and we size it from what a customer is worth to you. The cards above explain each plan, and the pricing page adds the details.
A few campaigns bring calls on the first day, mainly for urgent needs near Sheppard Air Force Base, while others need two to four weeks to show which phrases bring real inquiries. No count is promised. Each month's report breaks out calls, form fills and the actual search phrases behind them, one campaign at a time.
In Wichita County, start from what a customer is worth to you, how often a lead becomes a sale and how many jobs you can take on, then pick a monthly amount you can keep up. In a county where 80.3% of advertisers are small, a modest plan with narrow ad groups can be seen without chasing the biggest bid.
Near Midwestern State University, Google Ads usually comes first for students and parents who are looking for a place right now. Meta Ads (Facebook and Instagram) can introduce the community to households ahead of lease season. The report compares both by inquiries and tours, so the split can change.
Yes, though each place needs its own location group and landing page: Gainesville and Denton each have their own page on this site. Companies in Wichita County can then compare the cities by calls and move money toward the better one.
Ads cannot target a person's job, but they can reach people who search for lodging and are near the base, with distance in the headline. A hotel near Sheppard Air Force Base can build a campaign around those searches and judge it by tracked calls and bookings.
A short campaign in the weeks before the Hotter'N Hell Hundred in August is a fair test, with ads for tune-ups, tubes and rentals if the shop offers them. Riders also look for same-day help during the event, so ads with hours and a map link may earn calls that weekend.
We add negative keywords for do-it-yourself, tutorial and supply phrases, and read the search terms report weekly at first. In a city with a median home value of $128,800, many homeowners start with repairs they try themselves, so this filter protects the budget.
Only as a test. Wichita Falls is about 15 miles from the border, and its 102,482 residents already give plenty to work with, and a business that really serves customers north of it can add a second location group with its own budget. The report then shows whether that traffic turns into calls before more money goes there.
Sponsored, labeled ads now appear for some people on ChatGPT's free and lower-priced plans, and advertisers buy them in OpenAI's own self-serve ad manager. Targets are coarse and the reporting is still developing, and that argues for a small experiment, not a core budget. Google Ads stays the usual first move; we can talk it over when you are weighing a ChatGPT test.
The surrounding area
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For a county-wide plan, read the Wichita County Google Ads page.
Contact
Tell us whether your customers are trainees at Sheppard Air Force Base, students or longtime residents, and what they ask before they call. A short plan for reaching each group will follow. Call 610-825-4363 or email hello@getphound.com.