Residents aged 65 and over make up 24.9% of Sault Ste. Marie, well above the provincial share of 18.5%. Web design in Sault Ste. Marie works best when the site answers the questions local customers actually ask. Our team builds a professional site for your business for CA$119 a month: domain, email and hosting included, and nothing to pay until you approve it.
No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website.
Who lives and works in Sault Ste. Marie
The municipality takes in places such as Bayview, Broadview Gardens, Brookfield and Buckley, so customers may search for any of those names. A service area section that lists them helps people from each community see that you cover them.
Sault Ste. Marie counted 1,897 businesses with employees in June 2026, and 38.9% of them had one to four employees. Most of your competition is small and local too, so a professional website is a real differentiator.
Who is searching in Sault Ste. Marie
84.9% of residents were born in Ontario. Name the communities you serve, so people recognise their own. Driving is how 90.7% of commuters in Sault Ste. Marie get to work. Put your address and directions where they are easy to find.
37.9% of households are people living alone or with non-relatives. Show convenience: opening times, delivery areas and how to reach you.
65.5% of commuters get to work in under 15 minutes. Customers are mostly local, so local details count.
The business mix in Sault Ste. Marie
Of the 1,897 businesses with employees counted in Sault Ste. Marie (June 2026), these groups stand out against the provincial mix:
- Clothing, shoe and accessory stores, 46 in Sault Ste. Marie: the site should show the shop address and hours and new arrivals with photos.
- Specialty trades such as electricians, plumbers and roofers, 138 in Sault Ste. Marie: the site should show the services they offer and where and emergency contact details and hours.
- Child care and social services, 61 in Sault Ste. Marie: the site should show staff qualifications and how enrolment works.
- Car dealers and auto parts stores, 31 in Sault Ste. Marie: the site should show directions and opening hours and service and repair hours.
- Grocers, bakeries and specialty food stores, 52 in Sault Ste. Marie: the site should show how to order for collection by email and what is in season.
Among residents who work, the largest sectors are health care and social assistance (19.2%), retail trade (13.6%) and manufacturing (11.0%).
The 2021 Census picture of Sault Ste. Marie
Sault Ste. Marie has 32,530 occupied private dwellings; 68.3% are owned by the people living in them. With a median household income of $73,000 (2020), compared with $91,000 across Ontario, customers in Sault Ste. Marie value seeing prices up front. Spread over 222 square kilometres, Sault Ste. Marie has a density of 324.6 residents per square kilometre.
More 2021 Census figures for Sault Ste. Marie
- Residents who immigrated to Canada: 8.5%
- Apprenticeship or trades certificate holders: 6.3%
- No fixed workplace (trades, delivery, sales): 9.5%
- Children under 5: 4.2%
- Average commute: 13.2 minutes
Sault Ste. Marie against the provincial average
On home ownership, Sault Ste. Marie (68.3%) compares with 68.4% for the province as a whole. On the senior share, Sault Ste. Marie (24.9%) compares with 18.5% for the province as a whole. The share of households that rent is 31.7% in Sault Ste. Marie and 31.4% in Ontario.
Sault Ste. Marie has 1,317 fewer residents than in 2016, a change of 1.8%. For comparison, Ontario as a whole grew 5.8% from 2016 to 2021.
Where Sault Ste. Marie sits in Ontario
Nearby municipalities include Prince (14 km), Laird (29 km), Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional (31 km), Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional (35 km) and Johnson (40 km). Sault Ste. Marie is part of Algoma District. The nearest large city, Greater Sudbury, is about 251 km away to the east. Statistics Canada places it in the Sault Ste. Marie census agglomeration. A website can name each place you serve, from Laird to Prince.
Prince (975 residents) and Laird (1,121) are the closest neighbours with their own page. Median household income was $116,000 in Prince and $103,000 in Laird, compared with $73,000 in Sault Ste. Marie.
Running a business website from Sault Ste. Marie: the rules
Some homework for Sault Ste. Marie 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
- 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 built business websites since 2008, always working online. The plan is the same in Sault Ste. Marie as in any other town in Canada: one monthly fee, everything arranged by email.
- Answer the short sign-up form, which takes about 5 minutes; logo and photos follow by email.
- Within 3 business days, your website is ready on a temporary link, built with your brand on a proven professional template.
- Once you approve it, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain, together with your business email.
After it goes live, hosting, SSL and daily backups are on our side, and the 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
What business owners in Sault Ste. Marie ask us
Will the website work on phones?
Yes. The layout adapts to phones, tablets and computers, and every page keeps the contact form and your details.
My customers come from Prince and Laird as well. Can I say so?
Yes. Email us the towns you serve (say Prince, Laird and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional) and they go on a service area page.
How long until my website is ready?
Within 3 business days of receiving your material, the website is ready on a temporary link. It goes live on your domain after you approve it and the first monthly fee is paid.
Does the plan include business email?
As many addresses on your domain as you need, sharing 5 GB in total, with webmail and spam filtering.
Am I tied in for a year?
There is no setup fee and no minimum term: you pay CA$119 a month and can stop whenever you need to.
What if I need to change something later?
Our team does it for you: email what needs changing and we take care of it, along with hosting, SSL and backups.
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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- Census figures for Sault Ste. Marie: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, data tables 98-10-0002 to 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).
- Locations: Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB), contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada; distances are straight-line.
- Localities of Sault Ste. Marie: Statistics Canada, Standard Geographical Classification 2021.
- Figures are the latest official releases when this page was written; distances are straight-line.