South Ayrshire · Scotland
Ayr web design, built to get you called.
Custom websites for Ayr businesses: your line of work, your area, your words written for you. The biggest group of businesses in South Ayrshire is management consultancies, about 105 of them. £299 setup and £99 a month on a 12-month plan, live in 3 working days.
The South Ayrshire figures that cover Ayr.
Ayr has no ONS figures of its own. These cover the whole of the South Ayrshire council area, which Ayr shares with 2 other towns on this site. Business counts are rounded to the nearest 5 (UK Business Counts, 2025).
Source: UK Business Counts - enterprises by industry and local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: Population estimates by local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: UK Business Counts - enterprises by industry and local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Per head of population, South Ayrshire is quieter than most: 31.3 active businesses per 1,000 residents puts it 257th of 350 council areas in Great Britain, where the overall figure is 39.3.
Compared with the UK as a whole, South Ayrshire has more hotels, guest houses and similar serviced accommodation, than its size would suggest (twice the national share) and more roofing businesses (1.9 times).
Management consultancies are the largest group, at about 105. At the other end, other building completion and finishing businesses are scarcer than usual: 33% of the UK share.
1,310
businesses across 74 of the trades we build for, in the South Ayrshire council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 105 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 95 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 80 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 75 |
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 75 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 60 |
| Joinery businessesJoiners & Carpenters · Kitchen Fitters | 55 |
| Licensed restaurantsRestaurants | 50 |
| Landscaping and gardening businessesLandscapers & Gardeners · Tree Surgeons · Gardeners | 45 |
| Cafés and unlicensed restaurantsCafés & Coffee Shops | 45 |
| Pubs and barsPubs | 45 |
| Other personal service businesses, a category that includes pet grooming, pet boarding and tattooing,Dog Groomers · Dog Walkers & Pet Sitters · Dog Trainers & Behaviourists · Kennels & Catteries · Tattoo Studios | 40 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 35 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 35 |
| Estate and letting agenciesEstate Agents | 35 |
| Roofing businessesRoofers | 30 |
Ayr and the places nearby.
Ayr is the county town of Ayrshire, with a long sandy beach, a racecourse and Burns country at Alloway on its southern edge. It serves a wide area of South Ayrshire for shopping, legal and medical services, and draws day-trippers from Glasgow in summer. Housing ranges from grand Victorian villas near the seafront to large council-built estates on the east side. Trades here benefit from naming the specific parts of town they cover, while hospitality businesses need current hours for race days and the summer crowd.
Prestwick (3 miles) and Troon (6 miles) are the nearest in the same council area. A longer drive takes in Irvine (11 miles), Kilmarnock (12 miles), Saltcoats (14 miles) and Kilwinning (14 miles). Naming the towns you actually cover tells people straight away whether you will come to them.
Inside Ayr, the site can name areas such as Alloway, Belmont, Forehill, Heathfield, Whitletts, Newton-on-Ayr, Doonfoot and Castlehill.
Ayr addresses fall in the KA postcode area, about 330 miles north of Exeter, where we are based.
How we work with Ayr businesses.
330 miles from our Exeter studio
Projects for Ayr businesses are run from Exeter: a call to start, designs shared to your phone, changes turned round quickly. Ranking locally depends on what your site says about Ayr, not on where your designer sits.
£299to set up
£99a month
3working days to launch
You approve it before anything goes live.
Designed from scratch, every word written for you, hosting and Google setup included. Or pay £1,795 once and £49 a month with no minimum term.
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