Web Design in New Westminster, British Columbia

Doing business in New Westminster

Apartment living (34.7% of households in towers of five storeys or more) shapes what people buy: delivery, nearby services and anything that saves space or time. Your site should say clearly where you deliver and how to reach you.

After growing 11.2% in five years, New Westminster keeps gaining households that look for local services online first. Your site should make it obvious what you do and where.

Renters (45.3% of households) move more often than owners, and each move starts with a search for local services. A website with up-to-date contact details is how a New Westminster business gets found by people who are new to the street.

Who is in business in New Westminster

New Westminster had 2,555 employer businesses in June 2026. The sectors below are more common here than across British Columbia, with what each one’s website should show:

• Restaurants, cafés and bars (183 locations): the menu with prices and opening hours and a map.
• Cleaning, landscaping and other business support services (114 locations): insurance details and photos of completed work.
• Child care and social services (104 locations): staff qualifications and how enrolment works.
• Tutors, driving schools and training providers (40 locations): how to enrol and fees.

Most are small: 59.1% of them had one to four employees.

Among residents who work, the largest sectors are health care and social assistance (12.9%), professional, scientific and technical services (11.2%) and retail trade (10.1%).

New Westminster by the numbers

With a median age of 40.4 (British Columbia: 42.8), the population of New Westminster is younger than British Columbia overall. New Westminster has 36,099 occupied private dwellings; 54.7% are owned by the people living in them. The median household income in New Westminster, $82,000 in 2020, is close to the British Columbia figure of $85,000.

New Westminster: more from the census

• Mean commuting time: 29.1 minutes
• Residents aged 85 and over: 2.0%
• Commutes of an hour or more: 8.5%
• High-rise apartment households: 34.7%
• Row houses: 5.8% of households
• One-person and shared households: 43.0%
• Residents per square kilometre: 5,052.4

Side by side with British Columbia

The share of households that rent is 45.3% in New Westminster and 32.8% in British Columbia. On the senior share, New Westminster (16.1%) compares with 20.3% for the province as a whole. Households that own their home: 54.7% in New Westminster, against 66.8% across British Columbia.

New Westminster added 7,920 residents between the last two censuses (11.2%). Across British Columbia, the population grew 7.6% over the same period.

The people a New Westminster website talks to

43.0% of households are people living alone or with non-relatives. People living alone value delivery and quick service. 20.7% of residents mostly speak a non-official language at home. Short sentences and visible prices work across languages.

Young adults (20 to 34) make up 23.9% of New Westminster. They read reviews and compare, so show what makes you different.

6.5% of residents arrived in Canada between 2016 and 2021. A clear explanation of how you work helps anyone who does not know you yet.

In May 2021, 26.3% of working residents in New Westminster worked at home. Daytime visitors to your site are common, so keep your hours current.

New Westminster and the surrounding area

Nearby municipalities include Burnaby (6 km, pop. 249,125), Port Moody (10 km, pop. 33,535) and Port Coquitlam (11 km, pop. 61,498). It is part of the Vancouver census metropolitan area. Burnaby is 6 km to the northwest. A website can name each place you serve, from Port Coquitlam to Burnaby.

Burnaby has 249,125 residents and a median age of 40.4, against 40.4 in New Westminster. Median household income was $83,000 in Burnaby and $115,000 in Port Moody, compared with $82,000 in New Westminster.

What British Columbia asks of a business online

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

Details vary by business, so treat this as general information, not legal advice, and check the official pages linked above.

Your website, built remotely for New Westminster

We have built business websites since 2008, with every step handled online. For a business in New Westminster, that means the same CA$119 plan as anywhere else in Canada, with your material and your questions going by email.

1. Start with the online sign-up (about 5 minutes) and tell us what the business does.
2. We put the site together with your logo, colours and photos, and send you a temporary link within 3 business days.
3. 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.