Scooba, MS goes back to 1858; in 2025 it had 734 residents. Web design in Scooba works best when it shows who is behind the business and how long it has been around. A small business website in Scooba doesn’t have to start with a big invoice: Aria builds it for $89 a month, domain and email included, and bills the first month only after your approval.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Scooba on the map
The closest municipalities to Scooba are Geiger, AL (9.6 miles east), De Kalb (11 miles west) and Shuqualak (12 miles northwest). With 296 residents per square mile on 2.5 square miles of land, Scooba is spread out by Mississippi standards. The county seat, De Kalb, is 11 miles west. George Downer Airport (AIV) is 25 miles northeast of Scooba in a straight line. There are 9 incorporated cities and towns within 25 miles of Scooba. List the towns you actually serve, such as De Kalb and Shuqualak, on your website; customers outside Scooba want to know before they call.
How big is the Scooba market?
Five years of change in Scooba
Scooba lost 14 residents between 2020 and 2025, according to the Census Bureau’s estimates. That compares with −0.2% for Mississippi as a whole. A steady town rewards the business people can find and trust quickly.
Scooba weather and a seasonal business
Climate normals for 1991-2020 from Gainesville, 20 miles away, put the July average high at 91°F and the January average low at 35°F. Precipitation totals about 60 inches a year, with August the wettest month. The high reaches 90°F or more on about 68 days a year, and the low falls to freezing or below on about 45 days. Heat shapes the calendar: crews start early, afternoons belong to indoor activities, and the hottest weeks bring urgent searches. If you offer emergency or same-week service in bad weather, state it clearly and make the contact form fast to fill in.
Who lives in Scooba, and what that means for your website
Scooba is one of 2 municipalities in Kemper County, a county of 8,600 people. Census estimates for a town this size carry a wide margin of error, so the county is the better guide: the median household income is $46,431 and the median age is 40.6. Broadband reaches 75.9% of homes, and 14.5% of households are online only through a phone plan. Homeowners are 79.0% of households.
Businesses in and around Scooba
The Census counted 21 establishments with employees in 2023 in ZIP code 39358, which includes Scooba and its surroundings.
Across Kemper County, County Business Patterns counted 101 employer establishments in 2023, and the Nonemployer Statistics add 647 businesses with no payroll, most of them self-employed owners. The county’s largest sectors by number of employer establishments are other services (repair, personal care, organizations) (16.8%), retail trade (14.9%) and health care and social assistance (13.9%).
Hiring a web designer for your Scooba business, without the meetings
Aria is a web design company from Curitiba, Brazil, working since 2008. There are no visits or meetings in Scooba: material and questions travel by email, and you approve the website on a temporary link.
- You sign up in about 5 minutes and email us your logo, photos and anything you want on the site.
- Within 5 business days you get a temporary link with the whole website, built with your logo, colors and photos.
- Approve it, pay the first month, and the website goes live on your domain together with your business email.
Hosting, the SSL certificate, daily backups and security updates are on us, and content changes you send by email are included.
- Business website or online store, same price
- Your domain, registered and renewed by us (or the one you already have)
- Business email on your domain: 5 GB, webmail and spam filtering
- Hosting, SSL certificate and daily backups
- Changes to text, photos and prices, requested by email
- Ready within 5 business days on a temporary link
Before you publish: Mississippi and federal rules
Before your website goes live, it helps to have the basics of the business in order.
- Accessibility is a federal matter: the Justice Department’s ADA guidance covers the websites of businesses open to the public. ADA.gov guidance
- Mississippi’s regular retail sales tax rate is 7%. Groceries dropped to 5% on July 1, 2025. Local add-ons exist only at the city level: Tupelo adds 0.25% and Jackson adds 1% on certain sales. A sales tax permit from the Department of Revenue is required before doing business, one per location. Mississippi Department of Revenue
Each business is different; this is general information, not legal advice.
What Scooba business owners ask us
I work in Scooba and nearby towns. Can the website say that?
Yes. The website can carry a service area section naming De Kalb, Geiger, Gainesville and any other town you cover; you send the list by email.
With 734 people in Scooba, is a website worth the money?
Your customers come from all of Kemper County, not only Scooba: the county has 101 businesses with employees and 647 without (2023). The website is what they find when they search.
Can my hours and prices change with the season?
Yes. Send the new hours, prices or seasonal services by email; content changes are part of the $89 monthly fee.
Do I need to buy a domain first?
If your business already owns a domain, we point it to the new website; if not, we register one for you and renew it while you are a client.
Is there a setup fee?
No. No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website. There is no lock-in contract either: you can end the service whenever you need.
Your business in Scooba deserves a real website
About 5 minutes to sign up, a temporary link within 5 business days, and no payment until you approve.
- U.S. Census Bureau: Vintage 2025 population estimates; American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year), county figures where the town estimate is too uncertain; ZIP Code and County Business Patterns 2023; Nonemployer Statistics 2023; 2025 Gazetteer (straight-line distances).
- Climate: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (station USW00063892).
- Founding year, nickname, elevation, waters, colleges, hospitals, airports and parks: Wikidata (item Q1866148), retrieved on October 30, 2026; distances are straight-line.
- County seats: USGS National Atlas. State rules: the official Mississippi sources linked above, checked on October 30, 2026.
