91.7% of households in Fogo Island own their home, and 95.9% live in single-detached houses. A website for a Fogo Island business has to work for neighbours who already know you and for people searching from further away. For CA$119 a month, we set up a professional website with your brand, email on your domain and hosting, with no setup fee.
No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website.
Doing business in Fogo Island
A smaller population (2,117 in 2021) means every repeat customer counts. Keeping your hours, prices and services up to date online saves them a phone call and keeps you in front of people driving in from nearby.
Fogo Island in numbers
Fogo Island has 964 occupied private dwellings; 91.7% are owned by the people living in them. The median household income in Fogo Island was $62,400 in 2020, below the Newfoundland and Labrador median of $71,500, so clear prices matter.
Other numbers worth knowing
- Share of residents who are immigrants: 0.5%
- Residents aged 85 and over: 1.7%
- Worked at home (May 2021): 5.2%
- Households of people living alone or with non-relatives: 27.6%
- Average commute: 23.7 minutes
- Share of residents under 5: 2.4%
How Fogo Island compares with Newfoundland and Labrador
The share of employed residents working at home in May 2021 is 5.2% in Fogo Island and 13.0% in Newfoundland and Labrador. Households that own their home: 91.7% in Fogo Island, against 75.7% across Newfoundland and Labrador. On renting, Fogo Island (8.8%) compares with 24.0% for the province as a whole.
The population fell from 2,244 in 2016 to 2,117 in 2021 (5.7%). Over the same five years, Newfoundland and Labrador grew -1.8%.
Where Fogo Island sits in Newfoundland and Labrador
Customers may also come from Change Islands (16 km, pop. 184), Musgrave Harbour (31 km, pop. 946), Carmanville (33 km, pop. 784), Twillingate (40 km, pop. 2,121) and Crow Head (44 km, pop. 156). St. John’s is 263 km to the southeast. If you work in Change Islands or Musgrave Harbour as well, the site can say so on a service area page.
Change Islands has 184 residents and a median age of 66.5, against 56.4 in Fogo Island. In Change Islands, 100.0% of households own their home; in Fogo Island, 91.7%.
Know your Fogo Island audience
92.4% of commuters drive to work. Parking details and a map answer the first question many drivers have.
About three in ten people in Fogo Island is 65 or older. Text that is easy to read and an obvious way to get in touch help.
45.1% of commuters get to work in under 15 minutes. Name the parts of Fogo Island you serve.
Fogo Island businesses and what their websites need
In June 2026, Statistics Canada counted 71 businesses with employees in Fogo Island. Compared with Newfoundland and Labrador as a whole, these sectors have a larger presence:
- Manufacturers and machine shops, 3 in Fogo Island: the site should show a form for drawings and quotes and industries they serve.
- Grocers, bakeries and specialty food stores, 5 in Fogo Island: the site should show what is in season and products and prices.
- Sporting goods, hobby, book and gift stores, 4 in Fogo Island: the site should show the product range and events or classes they host.
- Hotels, inns and other places to stay, 6 in Fogo Island: the site should show what is nearby and the rooms with real photos.
Most are small: 64.8% of them had one to four employees. Whatever the sector, customers check the same things first: what you do, where, and how to reach you.
The jobs residents hold are mostly in manufacturing (20.9%), agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (19.0%) and transportation and warehousing (9.2%).
Newfoundland and Labrador rules for a business with a website
Selling or advertising online does not change the rules, but a few rules often come up:
- PIPEDA sets the ground rules for how private-sector organizations collect, use and disclose personal information. Office of the Privacy Commissioner: PIPEDA
- 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
This is general information, not legal advice; confirm the details with the agency behind each item or with a professional adviser.
What working with Aria looks like
Aria has been building business websites and online shops since 2008, and every project runs online. 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.
- Sign up online in roughly 5 minutes, then email us your logo and a few photos.
- We put the site together with your logo, colours and photos, and send you a temporary link within 3 business days.
- Once you approve it, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain, together with your business email.
After launch, you keep asking for changes by email: a new photo, an updated price, a new service. They are part of the monthly fee.
- 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
Before you sign up: common questions
Can the website show seasonal hours?
Yes. Send us the dates and hours for each season by email and we keep the site current; it is included in the plan.
Which platform do you use?
Your website runs on the Aria Platform, built on WordPress and looked after by our team: hosting, SSL, daily backups and security updates included.
How fast can I see the website?
The first version is ready within 3 business days, on a temporary link. Going live on your domain comes after your approval and the first payment.
Do I need professional photos?
Send what you have; we put it into a proven template with your colours and logo, and you review all the text before anything goes live.
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.
My customers come from Change Islands and Musgrave Harbour as well. Can I say so?
Of course. Email us the places you serve (for example Change Islands, Musgrave Harbour and Carmanville) and we put them on a page of their own.
How do I keep in touch with the team?
We work online from start to finish. You email your logo, photos and texts, and you approve the site on a temporary link.
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.
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- 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.
- Businesses: Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Counts, with employees, June 2026 (tables 33-10-1176 and 33-10-1174).
- Distances to nearby places are straight-line, between points of the Canadian Geographical Names Database (Natural Resources Canada); contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- Place names inside Fogo Island: Statistics Canada, Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2021.
- Numbers come from the official sources above and are updated when new releases come out; distances are measured in a straight line.