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Harwich web design, built to get you called.

Custom websites for Harwich businesses: your line of work, your area, your words written for you. The biggest group of businesses in Tendring is plumbing and heating businesses, about 170 of them. A £299 setup fee, then £99 a month. We aim to have you live in 3 working days.

ONS data

The Tendring figures that cover Harwich.

Council-wide figures: the ONS publishes business counts and population for Tendring as a whole, not for Harwich, and 4 other towns on this site sit in the same council area. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5.

4,775
active businesses in Tendring

Source: UK Business Counts - enterprises by industry and local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

159,060
people in the Tendring local authority

Source: Population estimates by local authority, Office for National Statistics, 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

There are 30.0 businesses for every 1,000 people in Tendring, compared with 39.3 across Great Britain, which places it 266th of 350 council areas by business density.

Two kinds of business stand out against the UK average: scaffold erection businesses, at 2.7 times the national share, and plumbing and heating businesses, at 2.1 times.

Plumbing and heating businesses are the largest group, at about 170. At the other end, other health practices are scarcer than usual: about half the UK share.

Trades in Tendring

2,080

businesses across 76 of the trades we build for, in the Tendring council area.

Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.

These are the same Tendring figures shown on the Clacton-on-Sea page, which lists every category.

Businesses by ONS category in Tendring
Category and businessesBusinesses
Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers170
Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics150
Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies145
Management consultanciesConsultants130
Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers125
Essex

Harwich and the places nearby.

Harwich is an old port town on a peninsula where the Stour and Orwell meet, with a historic old town of narrow streets and a link to the Mayflower. It runs into Dovercourt, which has its own seafront and high street, and the Harwich International port handles ferries to the Netherlands. Customers are often older homeowners and port workers. A site that names Dovercourt, Parkeston and Little Oakley reflects the local area.

Dovercourt (under a mile), Manningtree (10 miles), Clacton-on-Sea (12 miles) and Brightlingsea (15 miles) are the nearest in the same council area. Across the boundary into the next council area, Felixstowe (3 miles), Kesgrave (9 miles) and Ipswich (10 miles) are also close. A longer drive takes in Woodbridge (10 miles). Naming the towns you actually cover tells people straight away whether you will come to them.

Within Harwich itself, we build for businesses in Dovercourt, Parkeston, Little Oakley, Ramsey, Great Oakley and Old Harwich.

From our base in Exeter, Harwich is about 225 miles to the north-east. Its postcodes start CO.

How we work with Harwich businesses.

225 miles from our Exeter studio

Our studio is in Exeter and we work with Harwich 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.

Questions

Websites in Harwich: what people ask

Can you build a website for a Harwich business?
Yes, remotely. We work from Exeter, 225 miles from Harwich, and the whole job runs by phone, WhatsApp and video call. Nothing goes live until you have approved the design, and two rounds of changes are included.
Are there business figures for Harwich on its own?
No. The ONS publishes business counts by council area, and Harwich is part of Tendring, which it shares with Clacton-on-Sea, Brightlingsea, Dovercourt and others. The figures on this page are for the whole council area.
How far is Harwich from you?
About 225 miles as the crow flies: Harwich is north-east of Exeter, in the CO postcode area. Nobody needs to travel: the whole job runs by phone, WhatsApp and video call.
Do you cover the towns around Harwich?
Yes. We work anywhere in the UK, so Dovercourt, Felixstowe, Kesgrave and Manningtree are all covered. If your jobs come from several of them, the site names each one you serve, so people there can see you come to them.

Let’s get your Harwich 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.

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