B
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80% -- consumers searching local businesses weekly for U.S. consumers (2026)
80% of U.S. consumers search for local businesses weekly.
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80%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Soci
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Tier C
https://www.soci.ai/blog/local-seo-statistics/ ↗
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U.S. consumers: 80% consumers searching local businesses weekly. Source: Soci (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/us-consumers-local-search-weekly
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