Dorset · England
Web design in Swanage that gets your phone ringing.
We design and write websites for businesses in Swanage, from sole traders to multi-site firms. A good Swanage site also names the places around it, starting with Poole, 8 miles away. A £299 setup fee, then £99 a month. We aim to have you live in 3 working days.
The Dorset figures that cover Swanage.
These numbers are for all of Dorset, not Swanage alone, because the council area is the smallest unit the ONS publishes them for. Source: UK Business Counts 2025, rounded to the nearest 5, and ONS population estimates.
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.
Per head of population, Dorset is busier than most: 45.9 active businesses per 1,000 residents puts it 78th of 350 council areas in Great Britain, where the overall figure is 39.3.
Holiday lets and other short-stay accommodation are unusually common here, at 2.5 times their share of all UK businesses, followed by landscaping and gardening businesses at twice.
Management consultancies are the largest group, at about 725. At the other end, solicitors’ firms are scarcer than usual: about half the UK share.
6,810
businesses across 79 of the trades we build for, in the Dorset council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
These are the same Dorset figures shown on the Weymouth page, which lists every category.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 725 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 450 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 430 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 385 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 370 |
Swanage and the places nearby.
Swanage is a Victorian seaside town on the Isle of Purbeck, reached by a winding road or the chain ferry from Sandbanks, with a steam railway and Old Harry Rocks nearby. Second homes, holiday lets and retirees shape the market, and summer visitors swell the population. Purbeck stone buildings need specialist care. Trades should emphasise reliability for absent owners, and businesses should cover Studland and the Purbeck villages alongside the town.
The nearest towns in the same council area are Wareham (9 miles), Wimborne Minster (13 miles) and Ferndown (14 miles). Across the boundary into the next council area, Poole (8 miles) and Bournemouth (9 miles) are also close. A longer drive takes in Christchurch (12 miles), New Milton (17 miles) and Ringwood (18 miles). If you cover some of these and not others, the site should name the ones you do.
Langton Matravers, Studland, Herston, Worth Matravers, Harman's Cross and Corfe Castle: if you work in particular parts of Swanage, those names belong on the site.
From our base in Exeter, Swanage is about 69 miles to the east. Its postcodes start BH.
How we work with Swanage businesses.
69 miles from our Exeter studio
Projects for Swanage 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 Swanage, 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.
Web design in Swanage: questions
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Let’s get your Swanage 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.