Thurrock · England
Web design in Grays that gets your phone ringing.
Custom websites for Grays businesses: your line of work, your area, your words written for you. A good Grays site also names the places around it, starting with Tilbury, 2 miles away. A £299 setup fee, then £99 a month. We aim to have you live in 3 working days.
The Thurrock figures that cover Grays.
Council-wide figures: the ONS publishes business counts and population for Thurrock as a whole, not for Grays, and 2 other towns on this site sit in the same council area. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5.
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, Thurrock is about average: 38.5 active businesses per 1,000 residents puts it 158th of 350 council areas in Great Britain, where the overall figure is 39.3.
Compared with the UK as a whole, Thurrock has more other building completion and finishing businesses than its size would suggest (3.1 times the national share) and more floor and wall covering businesses (2.9 times).
Domestic construction firms are the largest group, at about 295. At the other end, solicitors’ firms are scarcer than usual: 30% of the UK share.
2,785
businesses across 75 of the trades we build for, in the Thurrock council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 295 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 220 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 200 |
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 190 |
| Other building completion and finishing businessesHandymen | 185 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 165 |
| Specialist construction businesses not classified elsewhereBricklayers · Fencing Contractors · Driveway Contractors | 145 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 110 |
| Joinery businessesJoiners & Carpenters · Kitchen Fitters | 105 |
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 100 |
| Other health practicesPhysiotherapists · Chiropractors · Counsellors & Therapists · Clinics & Private Healthcare | 75 |
| Floor and wall covering businessesTilers · Flooring & Carpet Fitters | 70 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 60 |
| Painting and decorating businessesPainters & Decorators | 50 |
| Cleaning businessesCleaning Companies | 50 |
| 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 | 50 |
Grays and the places nearby.
Grays is the main town of Thurrock, sitting on the Thames between the ports, the logistics estates and the Lakeside retail area. It houses a lot of people working in warehousing, transport and trades, plus commuters on the Fenchurch Street line into London. Competition from the London side of the river is real, so a Grays business wins by being clearly local: naming Chafford Hundred, Stifford Clays and the surrounding villages, and showing up in the map results rather than competing on broad Essex terms.
The nearest towns in the same council area are Tilbury (2 miles) and Corringham (7 miles). Across the boundary into the next council area, Northfleet (3 miles), Gravesend (3 miles), Dartford (4 miles) and Erith (6 miles) are also close. If you cover some of these and not others, the site should name the ones you do.
Inside Grays, the site can name areas such as Chafford Hundred, Stifford Clays, Little Thurrock, Chadwell St Mary, South Ockendon and West Thurrock.
Grays addresses fall in the RM postcode area, about 175 miles east of Exeter, where we are based.
How we work with Grays businesses.
175 miles from our Exeter studio
Our studio is in Exeter and we work with Grays businesses remotely, start to finish. Search engines weigh what your site says and how it is set up, so that is where the effort goes.
£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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Let’s get your Grays 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.