Hertfordshire · England
Web design in Harpenden, written for the people who hire you.
Custom websites for Harpenden businesses: your line of work, your area, your words written for you. A good Harpenden site also names the places around it, starting with St Albans, 5 miles away. A £299 setup fee, then £99 a month. We aim to have you live in 3 working days.
Business across St Albans, including Harpenden.
Council-wide figures: the ONS publishes business counts and population for St Albans as a whole, not for Harpenden, and 1 other town on this site sits 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.
Per head of population, St Albans is busier than most: 54.4 active businesses per 1,000 residents puts it 31st of 350 council areas in Great Britain, where the overall figure is 39.3.
Two kinds of business stand out against the UK average: management consultancies, at 2.3 times the national share, and physical well-being businesses, such as massage and spa services, at 2.1 times.
The biggest single category is management consultancies: around 900 of them. Roofing businesses are thinner on the ground, at about half the UK share.
3,325
businesses across 78 of the trades we build for, in the St Albans council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
These are the same St Albans figures shown on the St Albans page, which lists every category.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 900 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 165 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 140 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 130 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 125 |
Harpenden and the places nearby.
Harpenden is an affluent commuter town between St Albans and Luton, with fast Thameslink trains into London, wide commons and the Rothamsted agricultural research station. Large Edwardian and interwar family homes dominate, and owners regularly commission extensions, lofts and garden work. Customers here are discerning and research carefully before hiring. A polished site with clear examples of past work and names like Batford, Kinsbourne Green and Wheathampstead will beat broad Hertfordshire claims.
Closest to Harpenden within St Albans: St Albans (5 miles). Elsewhere in Hertfordshire: Welwyn Garden City (7 miles), Hemel Hempstead (7 miles), Hatfield (7 miles) and Stevenage (9 miles). Just over the council boundary, Luton (5 miles), Dunstable (9 miles) and Houghton Regis (9 miles) are close by. It is worth saying plainly which of these you travel to, so people further out know whether to call.
Inside Harpenden, the site can name areas such as Batford, Southdown, Kinsbourne Green, West Common, Wheathampstead and Redbourn.
From our base in Exeter, Harpenden is about 157 miles to the north-east. Its postcodes start AL.
How we work with Harpenden businesses.
157 miles from our Exeter studio
From Exeter we build for businesses across Hertfordshire, Harpenden included. Everything happens by phone, WhatsApp and video, so you never lose half a day to a meeting.
£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.
Questions from Harpenden businesses
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Let’s get your Harpenden 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.