City of Leicester · England
Web design in Leicester that gets your phone ringing.
We design and write websites for businesses in Leicester, from sole traders to multi-site firms. A good Leicester site also names the places around it, starting with Braunstone Town, 2 miles away. £299 to set up, then £99 a month, live in 3 working days.
Business in Leicester, by the numbers.
ONS UK Business Counts (2025) and population estimates for the Leicester council area. The council boundary and the built-up city are not quite the same area, so treat these as council-area figures. Business 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.
There are 34.8 businesses for every 1,000 people in the Leicester council area, compared with 39.3 across Great Britain, which places it 204th of 350 council areas by business density.
Financial services support businesses, including mortgage brokers, are unusually common here, at 5.2 times their share of all UK businesses, followed by bakeries making bread, fresh pastries and cakes at 2.5 times.
Financial services support businesses, including mortgage brokers, are the largest group, at about 480. At the other end, landscaping and gardening businesses are scarcer than usual: 22% of the UK share.
4,330
businesses across 77 of the trades we build for, in the Leicester council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Financial services support businesses, including mortgage brokers,Mortgage Brokers | 480 |
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 335 |
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 315 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 295 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 250 |
| Cafés and unlicensed restaurantsCafés & Coffee Shops | 250 |
| Other health practicesPhysiotherapists · Chiropractors · Counsellors & Therapists · Clinics & Private Healthcare | 205 |
| Licensed restaurantsRestaurants | 175 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 170 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 155 |
| Estate and letting agenciesEstate Agents | 140 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 120 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 110 |
| Pubs and barsPubs | 90 |
| Dental practicesDental Practices | 90 |
| Other building completion and finishing businessesHandymen | 85 |
Leicester and the places nearby.
Leicester is one of England's most diverse cities, with a correspondingly diverse independent business economy - food, retail and personal care in particular. Multilingual customers and specialised community markets are a genuine commercial factor here, and businesses that reflect the community they actually serve tend to compete better than those presenting themselves generically.
Across the boundary into the next council area, Braunstone Town (2 miles), Oadby (3 miles), Syston (5 miles) and Earl Shilton (9 miles) are also close. A longer drive takes in Loughborough (10 miles), Coalville (11 miles), Market Bosworth (11 miles) and Shepshed (12 miles). If you cover some of these and not others, the site should name the ones you do.
Within Leicester itself, we build for businesses in Clarendon Park, Highfields, Belgrave, Knighton, Stoneygate and Braunstone.
From our base in Exeter, Leicester is about 167 miles to the north-east. Its postcodes start LE.
How we work with Leicester businesses.
167 miles from our Exeter studio
Our studio is in Exeter and we work with Leicester 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 from Leicester businesses
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Let’s get your Leicester 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.