The town of Houston had 149 residents in 2025, in Perry County, Arkansas. Good web design in Houston is mostly about the basics: what you do, where you are, how to reach you. A small business website in Houston 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.
Houston by the numbers
Housing costs: a median home value of $85,000 and a median rent of $882 a month, against $188,000 and $947 in Arkansas.
Writing a website for Houston residents
Perry County had 10,309 residents in 2025 and 7 incorporated municipalities. At the county level, where the estimates are more precise: the median household income is $55,764 and the median age is 43.3. 84.2% of households have broadband and 20.9% rely on a cellphone data plan alone. Homeowners are 80.4% of households.
Houston and its neighbors
Within a short drive of Houston you find Bigelow (4.4 miles), Fourche (5.2 miles), Perry (5.7 miles), Perryville (6.3 miles), Oppelo (6.4 miles) and Morrilton (8.7 miles). The nearest airport with an IATA code is Petit Jean Park Airport (MPJ), 14 miles northwest. Hot Springs National Park lies within 41 miles of Houston. For big-city shopping and services, Conway (72,328 residents) is 13 miles away. Perryville, seat of Perry County, lies 6.3 miles to the west. A service area page that lists the towns you cover, from Houston to Perryville and Fourche, answers the first question many customers have: do you come to me?
Houston weather, in normals: August highs around 93°F, January lows around 29°F, measured at Morrilton, 9.5 miles away (1991-2020). Precipitation adds up to about 51 inches a year, falling on about 71 days with a tenth of an inch or more. Freezing nights (32°F or below) come about 81 times a year. Long, hot summers keep air-conditioning contractors, pool services and pest control busy, and nobody waits when the AC stops. Seasonal updates help: new hours, a seasonal service, a storm notice, sent by email and included in the monthly fee.
Who you compete with in Houston
From the 2023 county count for Perry County:
- Landscaping companies, 5 in the count. What works online: seasonal services, photos of yards you take care of and a quick way for new customers to reach you.
Perry County as a whole had 115 employer establishments in 2023 and another 808 nonemployer businesses, the one-person shops and independent contractors that often have no website at all. By number of employer establishments, retail trade leads in Perry County (15.7%), followed by construction (14.8%) and health care and social assistance (13.0%).
From sign-up to a live website
Based in Curitiba, Brazil, Aria has been building business websites since 2008. We don’t have an office in Houston: the whole process happens online, and the plan is the same $89 a month in any city.
- Register your business online in about 5 minutes; the logo, photos and texts you already have go by email.
- Review the website on a temporary link, ready within 5 business days, and request any changes.
- Only after you approve do you pay the first monthly fee; then the site is published on your domain.
After it goes live, hosting, SSL, daily backups and security updates stay with Aria, and you request content changes by email at no extra cost.
- 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
Rules that apply to a Houston business website
Selling or advertising online brings no special license, but these apply to most Houston businesses:
- Arkansas’s state sales and use tax rate is 6.5%, and cities and counties add local rates on top of it. Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration
- If you send marketing email from your new business address, the CAN-SPAM rules (16 CFR Part 316) apply, including an easy way for people to opt out. 16 CFR Part 316
General information, not legal advice: confirm the details with the agency that handles each item.
Before you sign up: questions from Houston
My business is in Houston, but I also work in Perry. Can the website show that?
Yes. A service area page can name each town you cover, such as Perry, Bigelow and Perryville.
Do you have an office in Houston?
No. Everything happens online and by email, from Curitiba, Brazil; you see the whole website on a temporary link before approving it.
Is a website worth it for a business in a town of 149 people?
Customers do not stop at the town limits: Perry County counts 115 businesses with employees and 808 without (2023). A website lets the whole county see what you do.
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.
Get your Houston business online for $89 a month
Sign-up in about 5 minutes, website within 5 business days on a temporary link, and the $89 monthly fee only after you approve it.
- Numbers for Houston come from the U.S. Census Bureau: the Vintage 2025 population estimates, the 2020-2024 American Community Survey (5-year), county figures where the town estimate is too uncertain, County and ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023, Nonemployer Statistics 2023 and the 2025 Gazetteer for straight-line distances.
- Climate: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (station USC00034938).
- Founding year, nickname, elevation, waters, colleges, hospitals, airports and parks: Wikidata (item Q2777521), retrieved on October 30, 2026; distances are straight-line.
- County seats: USGS National Atlas. State rules: the official Arkansas sources linked above, checked on October 30, 2026.