95.7% of households in Laird own their home, and 100.0% live in single-detached houses. A website for a Laird 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.
Laird at a glance
With 10.7% of working-age adults holding a trades certificate, Laird has a lot of skilled tradespeople, and a lot of competition among them. A website with photos of real jobs and the areas you cover helps you stand out.
Serving Laird and nearby
Customers may also come from Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional (6.2 km southeast), Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional (11 km northeast), Johnson (12 km east), St. Joseph (16 km south) and Hilton Beach (20 km southeast). It is part of the Sault Ste. Marie census agglomeration. Laird is part of Algoma District. Greater Sudbury is 229 km to the east. If you work in Johnson or St. Joseph as well, the site can say so on a service area page.
In Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional, 90.0% of households own their home; in Laird, 95.7%. Median household income was $104,000 in Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional and $97,000 in Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional, compared with $103,000 in Laird.
The business mix in Laird
Residents of Laird work mainly in health care and social assistance (16.8%), manufacturing (15.8%) and retail trade (12.9%); those are the customers and the competitors of a local business.
Who your customers are in Laird
89.7% of residents were born in Ontario. A few lines on who runs the business builds trust quickly.
Driving is how 97.4% of commuters in Laird get to work. A map and a note about parking save customers a phone call.
22.2% of residents are 65 or older (Ontario: 18.5%). Older customers check a business online before calling, so clear pages win.
Population and households in Laird
Spread over 103 square kilometres, Laird has a density of 10.9 residents per square kilometre. Households in Laird reported a median total income of $103,000 in 2020, above the Ontario median of $91,000. Laird has 470 occupied private dwellings; 95.7% are owned by the people living in them.
More 2021 Census figures for Laird
- Share of residents under 5: 3.6%
- Residents per square kilometre: 10.9
- Mean commuting time: 29.9 minutes
- Adults 25 to 64 with a college diploma: 31.1%
- Private dwellings: 560
- Households of couples with children: 26.6%
- Workers with no fixed workplace address: 11.9%
Side by side with Ontario
The share of employed residents working at home in May 2021 is 19.8% in Laird and 29.7% in Ontario. On local roots, Laird (89.7%) compares with 60.0% for the province as a whole. Residents under 15: 15.1% in Laird, against 15.8% across Ontario.
Laird added 74 residents between the last two censuses (7.1%). Across Ontario, the population grew 5.8% over the same period.
What Ontario asks of a business online
Selling or advertising online brings no special licence, but these points are worth checking:
- Since January 1, 2021, the AODA has required a business or non-profit organization with 50 or more employees to make its public websites accessible: web content posted after January 1, 2012 must meet the WCAG 2.0 Level AA success criteria, with some exceptions. Ontario.ca: accessible websites (AODA)
- 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
- An online transaction worth more than $50 is covered by Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act, and the business must disclose certain information to the customer before the transaction is completed. Ontario.ca: online shopping
General information, not legal advice. Each link goes to the official page, where the details for your situation are.
How Aria builds your Laird website
Our team has been designing websites for small businesses since 2008. The plan is the same in Laird as in any other town in Canada: one monthly fee, everything arranged by email.
- Sign up online in roughly 5 minutes, then email us your logo and a few photos.
- No more than 3 business days later, a temporary link shows you the full website, built on a proven template with your brand.
- 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
Questions from Laird business owners
Is a website worth it in a township of 1,121 people?
Your market is bigger than the township. People across Algoma District look up services online, and a clear website brings them to you.
Can the site list the places around Laird that I cover?
Yes. We add a section with the places you cover, Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional included, with the contact form one tap away.
Do I need professional photos?
Real photos taken with a good phone often work better than stock images. Email them with your logo and a list of services.
How many email accounts do I get?
Email on your own domain comes with the plan, such as info@yourbusiness: unlimited accounts, 5 GB of storage in total, webmail and spam filtering.
Is there a minimum contract?
You can stop the service whenever you need to; there is no setup fee and no long-term commitment.
Do we need to meet?
Everything happens by email: you send material and change requests, and you check the whole site on a temporary link before it goes live.
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 Laird. Reproduced and distributed on an 'as is' basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
- Business counts for Laird: 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.
- Localities of Laird: Statistics Canada, Standard Geographical Classification 2021.
- Numbers come from the official sources above and are updated when new releases come out; distances are measured in a straight line.