Skilled trades run deep in Hardisty: 14.5% of working-age adults have a trades certificate. For web design in Hardisty, it is a useful starting point: who is searching, and what they need to see. Our CA$119 plan covers the website or online store, your domain, email and hosting, ready within 3 business days on a temporary link.
No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website.
Hardisty, AB: the place behind the numbers
Customers aged 65 and over, 24.5% of Hardisty, often arrive at a website through a family member who is checking on their behalf. Plain language and visible contact details help both of them.
Who your customers are in Hardisty
75.7% of residents were born in Alberta. Mention the places around Hardisty you cover, so people recognise their own.
84.4% of households live in single-detached houses. Home services and trades should show photos of finished jobs.
Driving is how 89.8% of commuters in Hardisty get to work. Parking details and a map answer the first question many drivers have.
Hardisty by the numbers
The median household income in Hardisty was $79,500 in 2020, below the Alberta median of $96,000, so clear prices matter. Of the 247 households in Hardisty, 80.0% own and 20.0% rent. The median age is 47.2, compared with 38.4 for Alberta.
Other numbers worth knowing
- Couples with children, share of households: 20.4%
- Apprenticeship or trades certificate holders: 14.5%
- Commutes of an hour or more: 4.1%
- Adults 25 to 64 with a college diploma: 29.0%
- Share of residents 85 or older: 4.5%
- One-person and shared households: 36.7%
Side by side with Alberta
On driving to work, Hardisty (89.8%) compares with 87.3% for the province as a whole. Residents under 15: 12.7% in Hardisty, against 19.0% across Alberta.
The population barely moved between 2016 (554) and 2021 (548). For comparison, Alberta as a whole grew 4.8% from 2016 to 2021.
The business mix in Hardisty
In June 2026, Statistics Canada counted 64 businesses with employees in Hardisty. Compared with Alberta as a whole, these sectors have a larger presence:
- Insurance brokers and financial advisers (3): who the advisers are and how a first meeting works.
- Hotels, inns and other places to stay (3): rates by season and the rooms with real photos.
- Farms and agricultural businesses (4): seasonal opening times and what they grow or raise.
- Trucking and delivery companies (4): the routes and regions they cover and safety and licence details.
- Restaurants, cafés and bars (4): photos of the dishes and the room and the menu with prices.
Small firms dominate: 60.9% had fewer than five employees.
Among residents who work, the largest sectors are health care and social assistance (14.8%), transportation and warehousing (11.5%) and retail trade (9.8%).
The area your Hardisty website can cover
Customers may also come from Lougheed (18 km northwest), Amisk (21 km southeast), Irma (27 km north) and Sedgewick (28 km northwest). The nearest large city, Edmonton, is about 174 km away to the northwest. If you work in Sedgewick or Amisk as well, the site can say so on a service area page.
In Lougheed, 81.0% of households own their home; in Hardisty, 80.0%. Lougheed (225 residents) and Amisk (219) are the closest neighbours with their own page.
How the CA$119 plan works
Our team has been designing websites for small businesses since 2008. Nothing needs to happen in person: you send what you have by email and see the whole website on a temporary link before it goes live.
- Fill in the sign-up form at cadastro.ariaserv.com; it takes about 5 minutes.
- We put the site together with your logo, colours and photos, and send you a temporary link within 3 business days.
- When you are happy with it, you approve, the first CA$119 fee is issued, and the site is published 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 Hardisty: the rules
A website does not need a special licence, but the business behind it follows the usual rules. A few that come up often:
- Consent is at the heart of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL): express consent means someone has agreed, verbally or in writing, to receive a commercial electronic message from you, and senders should be ready to provide proof of that consent. Canada’s anti-spam legislation
- 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
Every business is different, so treat this as general information, not legal advice, and check the official pages linked above.
Answers for Alberta business owners
Can the website show seasonal hours?
Yes. The site can show your hours and services for each season, and you update them by email when they change.
What is the website built on?
Your website runs on the Aria Platform, built on WordPress and maintained by us: hosting, SSL, daily backups and security updates included.
Do I need professional photos?
Your logo, a few photos of your work or premises and a short description of what you offer, all by email. We build the pages and you approve every one.
Am I tied in for a year?
There is no setup fee and no minimum term: you pay CA$119 a month and can stop whenever you need to.
Will the website work on phones?
Yes, it is built to work on phones first, with buttons that are easy to tap and pages that load quickly.
I already own a domain. Can I keep it?
Your domain stays yours. Bring the one you have, or let us know you need one and we will help you choose.
How do we work together if I am in Hardisty?
It all happens by email: you send your material and any changes, and you review the website on a temporary link before anything is published.
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.
Ready to get your Hardisty business online?
No setup fee, no lock-in: you see the website on a temporary link before paying anything.
- Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (population and dwelling counts, age, income, housing, language, immigration, commuting, place of work and education tables) for Hardisty. Reproduced and distributed on an 'as is' basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
- Businesses: Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Counts, with employees, June 2026 (tables 33-10-1176 and 33-10-1174).
- Where Hardisty and its neighbours are: Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database; contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- Figures are the latest official releases when this page was written; distances are straight-line.