Gloucestershire · England
Stroud web design, built to get you called.
We design and write websites for businesses in Stroud, from sole traders to multi-site firms. The biggest group of businesses in the Stroud council area is management consultancies, about 320 of them. £299 setup and £99 a month on a 12-month plan, live in 3 working days.
Business in Stroud, by the numbers.
ONS UK Business Counts (2025) and population estimates for the Stroud council area. The council boundary and the built-up town 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.
The Stroud council area has 45.5 active businesses for every 1,000 residents, against 39.3 across Great Britain. That ranks it 83rd of 350 council areas.
Two kinds of business stand out against the UK average: veterinary practices, at 2.6 times the national share, and landscaping and gardening businesses, at 1.9 times.
The biggest single category is management consultancies: around 320 of them. At the other end, solicitors’ firms are scarcer than usual: 37% of the UK share.
2,130
businesses across 77 of the trades we build for, in the Stroud council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 320 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 155 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 115 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 110 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 100 |
| Landscaping and gardening businessesLandscapers & Gardeners · Tree Surgeons · Gardeners | 90 |
| Pubs and barsPubs | 75 |
| Other health practicesPhysiotherapists · Chiropractors · Counsellors & Therapists · Clinics & Private Healthcare | 70 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 65 |
| Specialised design businesses, including interior designers,Interior Designers | 65 |
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 60 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 60 |
| Joinery businessesJoiners & Carpenters · Kitchen Fitters | 55 |
| Licensed restaurantsRestaurants | 55 |
| Specialist construction businesses not classified elsewhereBricklayers · Fencing Contractors · Driveway Contractors | 50 |
| 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 | 50 |
Around Stroud.
Stroud sits where the Five Valleys meet on the edge of the Cotswolds, a former wool and cloth mill town with a strong creative, independent and environmentally minded culture and a well-known farmers' market. Customers here often prefer small, local and ethical businesses, and many live in steep-sided villages with limited access. A website that tells a genuine local story, explains how you work and lists the valleys and villages you cover will connect far better than generic corporate copy.
Stonehouse (3 miles), Painswick (3 miles), Minchinhampton (3 miles) and Nailsworth (4 miles) are the nearest in the same council area. Elsewhere in Gloucestershire, Quedgeley (6 miles), Henley (8 miles) and Tetbury (8 miles) are within reach. Naming the towns you actually cover tells people straight away whether you will come to them.
Inside Stroud, the site can name areas such as Nailsworth, Minchinhampton, Painswick, Rodborough, Cainscross, Stonehouse and Chalford.
Stroud addresses fall in the GL postcode area, about 91 miles north-east of Exeter, where we are based.
How we work with Stroud businesses.
91 miles from our Exeter studio
Projects for Stroud 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 Stroud, 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.
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£299 setup, then £99 a month. Live in 3 working days. Tell us what your business does - we reply the same working day.