The 2021 Census found 1,815 people in Wabana, down 15.4% from 2016. Web design in Wabana works best when the site answers the questions local customers actually ask. Aria builds the whole site for CA$119 a month, with your domain, business email and hosting, and you only pay after approving it.
No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website.
Doing business in Wabana
Long commutes leave little time for phone calls during the day. In Wabana, a website that answers the usual questions (prices, hours, service area) and takes messages by email fits how residents live.
The people a Wabana website talks to
One-person and shared households are 46.3% of the total. Show convenience: opening times, delivery areas and how to reach you.
About three in ten people in Wabana is 65 or older. A family member often does the search for them, so keep the essentials easy to spot.
Single-detached houses hold 83.7% of households in Wabana. Renovators, landscapers and other trades should show photos of finished jobs.
Wabana in numbers
Spread over 14 square kilometres, Wabana has a density of 125.3 residents per square kilometre. Wabana has 951 occupied private dwellings; 73.2% are owned by the people living in them. With a median household income of $36,000 (2020), compared with $71,500 across Newfoundland and Labrador, customers in Wabana value seeing prices up front. The median age is 56.8, compared with 48.4 for Newfoundland and Labrador.
Wabana: more from the census
- Trades certificates (ages 25 to 64): 8.5%
- Employed residents working from home in 2021: 10.1%
- Share of residents under 5: 3.3%
- Commutes of an hour or more: 28.2%
- Adults 25 to 64 with a college diploma: 21.5%
- Mean commuting time: 33.3 minutes
How Wabana compares with Newfoundland and Labrador
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 31.4% in Wabana and 23.6% in Newfoundland and Labrador. The share of employed residents working at home in May 2021 is 10.1% in Wabana and 13.0% in Newfoundland and Labrador. Residents born in Newfoundland and Labrador: 90.9% in Wabana, against 87.2% across Newfoundland and Labrador.
Wabana and the surrounding area
Nearby municipalities include Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s (8.4 km), Bauline (12 km), Paradise (13 km), Torbay (15 km) and Mount Pearl (17 km). St. John’s is 21 km to the southeast. A website can name each place you serve, from Paradise to Bauline.
In Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s, 86.0% of households own their home; in Wabana, 73.2%. Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s has 8,415 residents and a median age of 43.2, against 56.8 in Wabana.
Wabana businesses and what their websites need
Wabana had 33 employer businesses in June 2026. The sectors below are more common here than across Newfoundland and Labrador, with what each one’s website should show:
- Grocers, bakeries and specialty food stores (3): opening hours and how to order for collection by email.
- Home builders and renovators (3): how a quote request works and the areas they build in.
- Restaurants, cafés and bars (3): photos of the dishes and the room and opening hours and a map.
Most are small: 57.6% of them had one to four employees. In every one of these sectors, the website that wins is the one that answers questions before the customer has to ask.
Among residents who work, the largest sectors are health care and social assistance (20.3%), retail trade (19.0%) and construction (13.9%).
What working with Aria looks like
Our team has been designing websites for small businesses since 2008. It all runs online, so a Wabana business pays the same CA$119 a month as anyone else in Canada.
- Sign up online in roughly 5 minutes, then email us your logo and a few photos.
- You get a temporary link within 3 business days, so you can click through every page and ask for changes by email.
- After your approval, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain.
Hosting, the SSL certificate, daily backups and security updates stay with us, and content changes you email in are included.
- A business website or an online store, for the same monthly fee
- Your own domain: bring the one you have, or we help you pick one
- Email on your domain: unlimited accounts, 5 GB in total, webmail and spam filtering
- Hosting, an SSL certificate and a daily backup
- Text, photo and price updates whenever you email us
- Ready within 3 business days on a temporary link
Running a business website from Wabana: the rules
Some homework for Wabana businesses before the website goes live:
- PIPEDA sets the ground rules for how private-sector organizations collect, use and disclose personal information. Office of the Privacy Commissioner: PIPEDA
- Under Canadian competition law, it is against the law to make materially false or misleading representations to promote a product, service or business interest, and the law also prohibits the unauthorized use or distortion of tests and testimonials. Competition Bureau
This is general information, not legal advice; confirm the details with the agency behind each item or with a professional adviser.
Answers for Newfoundland and Labrador business owners
Will customers in Wabana be able to use the site on their phones?
Yes, it is built to work on phones first, with buttons that are easy to tap and pages that open fast.
Do I need a domain already?
If you have one, keep it: we point it to the website. If not, mention it when you sign up and we sort out the options with you by email.
Can I update prices after the site is live?
Our team does it for you: email what needs changing and we take care of it, along with hosting, SSL and backups.
Do we need to meet?
No meetings needed: support@ariaserv.com is where the conversation happens, and you see the full website on a temporary link before approving it.
Which platform do you use?
On the Aria Platform, which is built on WordPress and set up by our team, so you get a professional site without dealing with the technical side.
Do I pay anything to get started?
No. No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website. No long-term contract. You can stop the service whenever you need to.
Web design near Wabana
Newfoundland and Labrador
Ready to get your Wabana business online?
Send your logo and photos once you have signed up; the temporary link follows within 3 business days.
- Population, dwellings, land area, age, households, income, housing, language, place of birth, commuting, work and education: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (tables 98-10-0002, 98-10-0022, 98-10-0057, 98-10-0193, 98-10-0240, 98-10-0307, 98-10-0400, 98-10-0456 and 98-10-0458). Reproduced and distributed on an 'as is' basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
- Business counts for Wabana: Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Counts with employees, June 2026 (tables 33-10-1176 and 33-10-1174).
- Locations: Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB), contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada; distances are straight-line.
- Localities of Wabana: Statistics Canada, Standard Geographical Classification 2021.
- Figures are the latest official releases when this page was written; distances are straight-line.