1. Start with Cincinnati’s actual service footprint
Cincinnati is a municipality in Hamilton County. The 2020–2024 American Community Survey 5-year population estimate for the city is 311,224, with a margin of error of 60. That is eligibility context, not evidence of search demand, legal need, competition or future case volume. Your firm may serve Cincinnati, Hamilton County, other Ohio communities or a defined metropolitan area; those are not interchangeable audiences. Attribution should therefore preserve the geography attached to each inquiry instead of treating every Cincinnati visit as the same opportunity.
Recommended approach
Before reviewing channel performance, define the geographic fields your intake team already uses: city, county, service area and any matter-specific location. Ask whether those fields can be evaluated beside source, case type and outcome.
