Lancashire · England
Web design in Preston that gets your phone ringing.
We design and write websites for businesses in Preston, from sole traders to multi-site firms. The Preston council area has 35 active businesses for every 1,000 residents, close to the figure for Great Britain. £299 setup and £99 a month on a 12-month plan, live in 3 working days.
Business in Preston, by the numbers.
ONS UK Business Counts (2025) and population estimates for the Preston 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.
Per head of population, the Preston council area is about average: 35.4 active businesses per 1,000 residents puts it 198th of 350 council areas in Great Britain, where the overall figure is 39.3.
Compared with the UK as a whole, the Preston council area has more plastering businesses than its size would suggest (1.7 times the national share) and more laundry, dry-cleaning and carpet-cleaning businesses (1.6 times).
The biggest single category is management consultancies: around 205 of them. At the other end, specialised design businesses, including interior designers, are scarcer than usual: about half the UK share.
1,975
businesses across 76 of the trades we build for, in the Preston council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 205 |
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 150 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 110 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 105 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 95 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 90 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 85 |
| Other health practicesPhysiotherapists · Chiropractors · Counsellors & Therapists · Clinics & Private Healthcare | 80 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 80 |
| Joinery businessesJoiners & Carpenters · Kitchen Fitters | 65 |
| Pubs and barsPubs | 65 |
| Cafés and unlicensed restaurantsCafés & Coffee Shops | 50 |
| Specialist construction businesses not classified elsewhereBricklayers · Fencing Contractors · Driveway Contractors | 45 |
| Other building completion and finishing businessesHandymen | 45 |
| 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 | 45 |
| Estate and letting agenciesEstate Agents | 45 |
The area around Preston.
Preston is Lancashire's administrative centre, with a large university and a location at the meeting point of major motorways that makes it a natural base for firms covering the whole county. That reach cuts both ways: plenty of competitors can also claim Preston. Local businesses do best naming the districts and neighbouring towns they actually serve, and trades working the student rental market around the university should say so explicitly.
Elsewhere in Lancashire, Penwortham (2 miles), Leyland (5 miles), Longridge (6 miles) and Kirkham (7 miles) are within reach. Across the boundary into the next council area, Blackburn (9 miles) is also close. A longer drive takes in Darwen (11 miles). If you cover some of these and not others, the site should name the ones you do.
Fulwood, Ashton-on-Ribble, Penwortham, Ribbleton, Deepdale and Broughton: if you work in particular parts of Preston, those names belong on the site.
Preston addresses fall in the PR postcode area, about 213 miles north of Exeter, where we are based.
How we work with Preston businesses.
213 miles from our Exeter studio
Our studio is in Exeter and we work with Preston 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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