County Durham · England
Web design for Chester-le-Street businesses that want more enquiries.
Custom websites for Chester-le-Street businesses: your line of work, your area, your words written for you. A good Chester-le-Street site also names the places around it, starting with Washington, 3 miles away. £299 setup and £99 a month on a 12-month plan, live in 3 working days.
Business across County Durham, including Chester-le-Street.
Chester-le-Street has no ONS figures of its own. These cover the whole of the County Durham council area, which Chester-le-Street shares with 16 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.
There are 27.0 businesses for every 1,000 people in County Durham, compared with 39.3 across Great Britain, which places it 299th of 350 council areas by business density.
Compared with the UK as a whole, County Durham has more site preparation businesses than its size would suggest (2.8 times the national share) and more roofing businesses (2.3 times).
The biggest single category is management consultancies: around 470 of them. Solicitors’ firms are thinner on the ground, at 44% of the UK share.
5,435
businesses across 79 of the trades we build for, in the County Durham council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
These are the same County Durham figures shown on the Durham page, which lists every category.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 470 |
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 410 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 365 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 360 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 305 |
Chester-le-Street and the places nearby.
Chester-le-Street is a County Durham market town on the River Wear, with Lumley Castle overlooking the Riverside cricket ground and a long front street of shops. It sits between Durham and Newcastle and is a popular commuter base, with former mining villages all around it. Customers are loyal to firms that are genuinely local and trustworthy. A website should name the surrounding villages such as Pelton, Sacriston and Great Lumley, because many people here identify with their village rather than the town.
Inside County Durham, the closest places are Stanley (5 miles) and Durham (6 miles). Just over the council boundary, Washington (3 miles), Gateshead (7 miles), Sunderland (8 miles) and Newcastle upon Tyne (8 miles) are close by. A list of the places you really serve is more useful to a customer than “and surrounding areas”.
Within Chester-le-Street itself, we build for businesses in Pelton, Sacriston, Great Lumley, Pelton Fell, Ouston and Waldridge.
From our base in Exeter, Chester-le-Street is about 297 miles to the north. Its postcodes start DH.
How we work with Chester-le-Street businesses.
297 miles from our Exeter studio
We run Chester-le-Street projects from our Exeter studio, by phone, WhatsApp and video call. You approve every page on your phone, and how well you show up locally comes down to how the site is built and written.
£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.
Websites in Chester-le-Street: what people ask
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Where is Chester-le-Street in relation to Exeter?
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Let’s get your Chester-le-Street phone ringing.
£299 setup, then £99 a month. Live in 3 working days. Tell us what your business does - we reply the same working day.