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Ilkley web design, built to get you called.

Custom websites for Ilkley businesses: your line of work, your area, your words written for you. Ilkley is about 233 miles north of Exeter, where we are based, and we work with businesses there remotely. A £299 setup fee, then £99 a month. We aim to have you live in 3 working days.

The numbers

The Bradford figures that cover Ilkley.

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

16,800
active businesses in Bradford

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

557,758
people in the Bradford local authority

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

Per head of population, Bradford is quieter than most: 30.1 active businesses per 1,000 residents puts it 264th of 350 council areas in Great Britain, where the overall figure is 39.3.

Window cleaning businesses are unusually common here, at 2.1 times their share of all UK businesses, followed by other health practices at twice.

The biggest single category is management consultancies: around 530 of them. At the other end, other building completion and finishing businesses are scarcer than usual: 59% of the UK share.

Trades in Bradford

6,000

businesses across 79 of the trades we build for, in the Bradford council area.

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

These are the same Bradford figures shown on the Bradford page, which lists every category.

Businesses by ONS category in Bradford
Category and businessesBusinesses
Management consultanciesConsultants530
Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways475
Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics410
Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians345
Other health practicesPhysiotherapists · Chiropractors · Counsellors & Therapists · Clinics & Private Healthcare330
Bradford

The area around Ilkley.

Ilkley is a Victorian spa town in Wharfedale beneath Ilkley Moor and the Cow and Calf rocks, and it is one of the most affluent towns in West Yorkshire. Large stone villas, a literature festival and upmarket independents set the tone. Customers here expect a high standard, research carefully and pay for quality. Trades should show experience with older stone properties, and all businesses benefit from a site that feels as considered as the town's best shops.

Silsden (5 miles), Keighley (5 miles), Bingley (5 miles) and Shipley (7 miles) are the nearest in the same council area. Across the boundary into the next council area, Otley (5 miles) and Skipton (8 miles) are also close. A longer drive takes in Pudsey (11 miles). Naming the towns you actually cover tells people straight away whether you will come to them.

Within Ilkley itself, we build for businesses in Ben Rhydding, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Addingham, Middleton and Menston.

Ilkley (postcode area LS) sits about 233 miles north of Exeter.

How we work with Ilkley businesses.

233 miles from our Exeter studio

Projects for Ilkley 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 Ilkley, 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.

Questions

Web design in Ilkley: questions

Is Ilkley too far away for you?
No. Ilkley is about 233 miles north of Exeter, and distance makes no difference to how we work: calls, WhatsApp and a link to your design on your phone. You see and approve the design before anything goes live, with two rounds of changes included.
Are there business figures for Ilkley on its own?
No. The ONS publishes business counts by council area, and Ilkley is part of Bradford, which it shares with Bradford, Keighley, Shipley and others. The figures on this page are for the whole council area.
How far is Ilkley from you?
About 233 miles as the crow flies: Ilkley is north of Exeter, in the LS postcode area. Nobody needs to travel: the whole job runs by phone, WhatsApp and video call.
Do you cover the towns around Ilkley?
Yes. We work anywhere in the UK, so Silsden, Keighley, Bingley and Otley 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 Ilkley 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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