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Web design in Wigan that gets your phone ringing.
Websites for Wigan businesses of every kind and size, designed from scratch and written for you. Wigan is about 199 miles north of Exeter, where we are based, and we work with businesses there remotely. £299 to set up, then £99 a month, live in 3 working days.
Business in Wigan, by the numbers.
ONS UK Business Counts (2025) and population estimates for the Wigan 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.
Per head of population, the Wigan council area is quieter than most: 26.4 active businesses per 1,000 residents puts it 310th of 350 council areas in Great Britain, where the overall figure is 39.3.
Two kinds of business stand out against the UK average: plastering businesses, at 2.9 times the national share, and gyms and fitness facilities, at 2.4 times.
By count, the largest group is management consultancies, with about 290 businesses. At the other end, solicitors’ firms are scarcer than usual: about half the UK share.
3,770
businesses across 78 of the trades we build for, in the Wigan council area.
Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2025, rounded to the nearest 5. Open Government Licence v3.0.
| Category and businesses | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Management consultanciesConsultants | 290 |
| Vehicle repair businessesCar Valeting & Detailing · Mobile Mechanics · MOT Centres · Garages & Mechanics | 265 |
| Electrical contractorsElectricians · Solar Panel Installers | 255 |
| Hairdressing and beauty businessesBarbers · Hairdressers · Beauty Salons · Nail Technicians | 255 |
| Takeaways and mobile food businessesTakeaways | 250 |
| Plumbing and heating businessesPlumbers · Gas Engineers · Bathroom Fitters · Air Conditioning Engineers | 245 |
| Domestic construction firmsBuilders · Loft Conversion Companies | 180 |
| Joinery businessesJoiners & Carpenters · Kitchen Fitters | 165 |
| Pubs and barsPubs | 165 |
| Specialist construction businesses not classified elsewhereBricklayers · Fencing Contractors · Driveway Contractors | 110 |
| 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 | 90 |
| Accountancy practicesAccountants | 90 |
| Roofing businessesRoofers | 85 |
| Other building completion and finishing businessesHandymen | 85 |
| Other health practicesPhysiotherapists · Chiropractors · Counsellors & Therapists · Clinics & Private Healthcare | 80 |
| Cafés and unlicensed restaurantsCafés & Coffee Shops | 80 |
The area around Wigan.
Wigan grew on coal and cotton and still reads as a borough of distinct townships rather than one town, sitting between Manchester and Liverpool with good motorway links to both. People identify strongly with their own patch - Standish, Hindley and Orrell each think of themselves separately - and loyalty to local firms runs deep. A website that names the townships it covers, and sounds like a local outfit rather than a regional call centre, will do noticeably better in the map results than one that just says Greater Manchester.
The nearest town in the same council area is Leigh (6 miles). Across the boundary into the next council area, Westhoughton (4 miles), Horwich (5 miles), Adlington (5 miles) and Skelmersdale (6 miles) are also close. If you cover some of these and not others, the site should name the ones you do.
Within Wigan itself, we build for businesses in Pemberton, Standish, Orrell, Ince, Hindley, Aspull and Shevington.
Wigan addresses fall in the WN postcode area, about 199 miles north of Exeter, where we are based.
How we work with Wigan businesses.
199 miles from our Exeter studio
Our studio is in Exeter and we work with Wigan 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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£299 setup, then £99 a month. Live in 3 working days. Tell us what your business does - we reply the same working day.