Yorkshire and the Humber · England
Web design in Wakefield that gets your phone ringing.
Custom websites for Wakefield businesses: your line of work, your area, your words written for you. The Wakefield council area has 27 active businesses for every 1,000 residents, below the figure for Great Britain. £299 setup and £99 a month on a 12-month plan, live in 3 working days.
Business in Wakefield, by the numbers.
ONS UK Business Counts (2025) and population estimates for the Wakefield 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 Wakefield council area is quieter than most: 27.2 active businesses per 1,000 residents puts it 295th of 350 council areas in Great Britain, where the overall figure is 39.3.
Two kinds of business stand out against the UK average: site preparation businesses, at 1.8 times the national share, and takeaways and mobile food businesses, at 1.8 times.
The biggest single category is takeaways and mobile food businesses: around 295 of them. At the other end, management consultancies are scarcer than usual: 56% of the UK share.
3,830
businesses across 78 of the trades we build for, in the Wakefield council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 295 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 285 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 285 |
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 275 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 245 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 225 |
| Pubs and barsPubs | 180 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 175 |
| Joinery businessesJoiners & Carpenters · Kitchen Fitters | 160 |
| Cafés and unlicensed restaurantsCafés & Coffee Shops | 100 |
| Specialist construction businesses not classified elsewhereBricklayers · Fencing Contractors · Driveway Contractors | 95 |
| Other health practicesPhysiotherapists · Chiropractors · Counsellors & Therapists · Clinics & Private Healthcare | 90 |
| Licensed restaurantsRestaurants | 90 |
| Specialised design businesses, including interior designers,Interior Designers | 85 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 80 |
| Landscaping and gardening businessesLandscapers & Gardeners · Tree Surgeons · Gardeners | 75 |
Wakefield and the places nearby.
Wakefield is a cathedral city with a coal-mining past and a present shaped by the motorway network, which has made it a major location for warehousing and distribution. The Hepworth gallery has given the waterfront a cultural draw. Leeds is close enough that many customers compare across both, so a Wakefield business benefits from being specific about the city and its surrounding towns, such as Ossett and Horbury, where residents identify locally.
The nearest towns in the same council area are Ossett (3 miles), Normanton (4 miles), Featherstone (6 miles) and Castleford (7 miles). Across the boundary into the next council area, Rothwell (5 miles), Dewsbury (5 miles), Batley (6 miles) and Morley (6 miles) are also close. If you cover some of these and not others, the site should name the ones you do.
Within Wakefield itself, we build for businesses in Sandal, Outwood, Horbury, Ossett, Alverthorpe and Crigglestone.
From our base in Exeter, Wakefield is about 222 miles to the north. Its postcodes start WF.
How we work with Wakefield businesses.
222 miles from our Exeter studio
Our studio is in Exeter and we work with Wakefield 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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Let’s get your Wakefield 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.