88.5% of households in Old Perlican own their home, and 92.3% live in single-detached houses. A small business website in Old Perlican starts with that picture. Our team builds a professional site for your business for CA$119 a month: domain, email and hosting included, with no setup fee.
No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website.
A closer look at Old Perlican
A smaller population (608 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.
Key numbers for Old Perlican
Old Perlican has 253 occupied private dwellings; 88.5% are owned by the people living in them. Household incomes in Old Perlican are in line with Newfoundland and Labrador: a median of $73,000 against $71,500. The median age is 53.2, compared with 48.4 for Newfoundland and Labrador.
Other numbers worth knowing
- Share of residents who are immigrants: 4.5%
- Adults 25 to 64 with a college diploma: 31.5%
- One-person and shared households: 30.0%
- Workers travelling 60+ minutes each way: 11.5%
- Share of residents under 5: 2.5%
- Density: 43.0 people per km²
Old Perlican against the provincial average
The share of residents born in Newfoundland and Labrador is 90.9% in Old Perlican and 87.2% in Newfoundland and Labrador. On the share of children, Old Perlican (10.7%) compares with 13.4% for the province as a whole. Commuters who drive: 90.4% in Old Perlican, against 88.9% across Newfoundland and Labrador.
How Old Perlican is changing
Old Perlican has 25 fewer residents than in 2016, a change of 3.9%. Over the same five years, Newfoundland and Labrador grew -1.8%.
Local businesses in Old Perlican
For Old Perlican, the clearest picture comes from the jobs residents hold: manufacturing (30.8%), agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (25.0%) and retail trade (19.2%).
Old Perlican and the surrounding area
Customers may also come from Bay de Verde (7.9 km), Hant’s Harbour (24 km) and Winterton (28 km). St. John’s is 69 km to the south. A website can name each place you serve, from Hant’s Harbour to Small Point-Adam’s Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove.
Bay de Verde (347 residents) and Hant’s Harbour (318) are the closest neighbours with their own page. Median household income was $60,400 in Bay de Verde and $54,400 in Hant’s Harbour, compared with $73,000 in Old Perlican.
The people an Old Perlican website talks to
Most workers (90.4%) commute by car, truck or van. A map and a note about parking save customers a phone call.
Short commutes are the norm: 65.4% take less than 15 minutes. Customers are mostly local, so local details count.
11.5% of commuters travel an hour or more each way. Long-distance commuters compare services at night, online.
Getting an Old Perlican business online: the steps
Since 2008, Aria has been setting up websites, domains and business email for small companies. 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.
- Tell us about the business in the sign-up form, which takes about 5 minutes; the rest goes by email.
- We build the website on a proven professional template and send 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.
A price change or a fresh photo: email it in and our team updates the site, included in the 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
What Newfoundland and Labrador asks of a business online
Some homework for Old Perlican 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
General information, not legal advice. Each link goes to the official page, where the details for your situation are.
Old Perlican website questions, answered
What do I need to send?
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.
Can I sell online from Old Perlican?
Yes, an online store costs the same CA$119 a month as a regular website: a catalogue of your products, cart and online payment.
Will customers in Old Perlican 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.
What if I need to change something later?
Send the new prices or texts by email and we update the pages; it is included in the CA$119 plan.
What about my domain name?
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.
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.
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- Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (population and dwelling counts, age, income, housing, language, immigration, commuting, place of work and education tables) for Old Perlican. Reproduced and distributed on an 'as is' basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
- Employer businesses in Old Perlican and Newfoundland and Labrador: Statistics Canada, tables 33-10-1176 and 33-10-1174 (Canadian Business Counts, June 2026).
- 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.
- Numbers come from the official sources above and are updated when new releases come out; distances are measured in a straight line.