Web Design in Markham, Ontario

Doing business in Markham

Working from home was common in Markham in May 2021 (38.6% of employed residents). People who work locally shop locally, and they look up businesses on their laptops between meetings.

Residents of Markham can reach Richmond Hill in a short drive, so local businesses compete with the big city. What wins locally is being easy to find and easy to contact: a clear site does exactly that.

Markham includes communities such as Almira, Armadale, Box Grove and Brown’s Corners. Naming the ones you serve on your website helps customers who search by their own community’s name.

The business mix in Markham

Markham had 16,411 employer businesses in June 2026. The sectors below are more common here than across Ontario, with what each one’s website should show:

• Professional services such as accountants, lawyers and engineers (2,981): office address and hours and the services and who they are for.
• Restaurants, cafés and bars (1,148): photos of the dishes and the room and opening hours and a map.
• Hair salons, spas and other personal services (475): photos of their work and opening hours.
• Wholesalers and distributors (227): product lines and brands and how trade accounts work.

Most are small: 64.5% of them had one to four employees.

The jobs residents hold are mostly in professional, scientific and technical services (14.5%), finance and insurance (11.7%) and retail trade (10.3%).

Who is searching in Markham

One hour or more: that is the commute for 10.8% of workers in Markham. People who commute far compare services at night, online.

Driving is how 87.2% of commuters in Markham get to work. Put your address and directions where they are easy to find.

Around Markham

Customers may also come from Pickering (11 km east), Richmond Hill (14 km west), Whitchurch-Stouffville (15 km north), Toronto (17 km southwest) and Ajax (18 km east). Markham is part of York Region. A website can name each place you serve, from Toronto to Richmond Hill.

Pickering (99,186 residents) and Richmond Hill (202,022) are the closest neighbours with their own page. In Pickering, 85.2% of households own their home; in Markham, 81.7%.

Markham by the numbers

At $104,000, the median household income in Markham sits above the provincial figure ($91,000). Markham has 110,867 occupied private dwellings; 81.7% are owned by the people living in them. With a median age of 42.4 (Ontario: 41.6), the population of Markham is older than Ontario overall.

Markham: more from the census

• Commutes of an hour or more: 10.8%
• High-rise apartment households: 15.9%
• Row houses: 14.5% of households
• One-person and shared households: 18.4%
• College or CEGEP diploma (ages 25 to 64): 16.5%

Side by side with Ontario

Employed residents working at home in May 2021: 38.6% in Markham, against 29.7% across Ontario. On renting, Markham (18.3%) compares with 31.4% for the province as a whole. The share of residents aged 65 and over is 18.3% in Markham and 18.5% in Ontario.

How Markham is changing

Markham added 9,537 residents between the last two censuses (2.9%). Across Ontario, the population grew 5.8% over the same period.

Ontario rules for a business with a website

Some homework for Markham businesses before the website goes live:

• The Ontario Business Registry lets businesses and not-for-profit corporations complete over 90 transactions online, including registering, incorporating and updating their information. Ontario Business Registry
• Depending on what you do, you may need licences and permits to run your business under federal, provincial or municipal regulations. Ontario.ca: licences and permits
• 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.

How Aria builds your Markham website

Our team has been designing websites for small businesses since 2008. From Markham, the price is the same: one monthly fee of CA$119, and email is how we talk.

1. Fill in the sign-up form at cadastro.ariaserv.com; it takes about 5 minutes.
2. Within 3 business days, your website is ready on a temporary link, built with your brand on a proven professional template.
3. Once you approve it, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain, together with your business email.

Later on, updates to text, photos and prices go by email and cost nothing extra.