Houston is a town of 405 residents in Kent County, Delaware. Web design for a Houston business starts with the basics: clear services, a real address and a contact form that works. A small business website in Houston doesn’t have to start with a big invoice: Aria builds it for $89 a month, domain and email included, and bills the first month only after your approval.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Why a Houston website can’t be generic
17.4% of homes in Houston heat with propane or other bottled gas, against 9.2% in Delaware. Fuel delivery, furnace service and chimney work are steady local trades here, and the first cold week sends everyone searching. A page per service, written the way customers say it, plus the area you cover, beats one long list.
Hot months, wet months: Houston through the year
Houston weather, in normals: July highs around 87°F, January lows around 25°F, measured at Greenwood, 8 miles away (1991-2020). Precipitation totals about 46 inches a year, with September the wettest month. About 22 days a year hit 90°F or more. Mild weather stretches the outdoor season: patios, yards and outdoor events have a long season. If you offer emergency or same-week service in bad weather, say so in plain words and make the contact form fast to fill in.
Houston and its neighbors
Around Houston, the nearest cities and towns are Harrington (3.5 miles west), Milford (4.4 miles east), Farmington (5.2 miles southwest) and Frederica (6.6 miles north). Houston covers 0.4 square miles of land, about 1,057 residents per square mile. For big-city shopping and services, Vineland, NJ (62,703 residents) is 47 miles away. Kent County’s county seat is Dover, 17 miles to the north. There are 38 incorporated cities and towns within 25 miles of Houston. If you serve more than one town, your website can have a service area page that names each of them, so a customer in Farmington or Frederica sees right away that you cover them.
Which Houston businesses need a small business website
Some of the business types in Kent County, from the 2023 County Business Patterns:
- Beer, wine and liquor stores (46): store hours, what you carry and events or tastings, on a site you control.
- Quick-service restaurants (137): today’s hours, the menu and photos that look like what customers get.
- Electrical contractors (56): the towns you cover and photos of real installations.
- Pharmacies (30): hours, services such as vaccines, the insurance you accept and a map.
- Independent artists and performers (46): your work, upcoming shows or projects and a booking contact form.
Kent County as a whole had 4,971 employer establishments in 2023 and another 17,053 nonemployer businesses, the one-person shops and independent contractors that often have no website at all. One sector stands out in Kent County: performing arts and spectator sports businesses, with 96 establishments and 2.4 times the national share. What works for them online: the schedule, venue information and how to buy tickets. Next on the list: telecommunications providers, 54 of them, at 1.6 times the national share. Each of these businesses competes for the same search: someone in Houston typing what they need and picking from the results that look trustworthy.
Reading the Houston customer
Kent County: 194,786 residents (2025) in 20 incorporated places. Small-town survey numbers are uncertain, so here is Kent County as a whole: households have a median income of $74,477, and half the residents are older than 38.8. 91.1% of households have broadband and 14.0% rely on a cellphone data plan alone. 72.5% of households own their home.
Sizing up the Houston market
The population has grown every single year since 2020, from 387 to 405. Statewide, the change was +7.1%. For a local business, newcomers are the easiest customers to win and the hardest to reach without a website.
Small business website, start to finish
Aria is a web design company from Curitiba, Brazil, working since 2008. Everything is done online, so businesses in Houston get exactly the same plan as anyone else.
- Start with the online sign-up, which takes about 5 minutes, and send your material by email.
- Within 5 business days the website is ready on a temporary link, and you review it and ask for changes.
- Approve it: the first monthly fee is issued and your domain starts showing the new site.
After it goes live, hosting, SSL, daily backups and security updates stay with Aria, and you request content changes by email at no extra cost.
- Business website or online store, same price
- Your domain, registered and renewed by us (or the one you already have)
- Business email on your domain: 5 GB, webmail and spam filtering
- Hosting, SSL certificate and daily backups
- Changes to text, photos and prices, requested by email
- Ready within 5 business days on a temporary link
Running a website from Houston: the Delaware rules
Some homework before launch:
- Delaware charges no sales tax. Instead it levies a gross receipts tax on the seller’s total revenue, at rates that vary by business activity, so the customer sees no tax line but the business owes tax on what it collects. Delaware Division of Revenue
- Accessibility is a federal matter: the Justice Department’s ADA guidance covers the websites of businesses open to the public. ADA.gov guidance
This is general information, not legal advice. Your county, your town hall or an attorney can confirm what applies to you.
Small business website questions from Houston
I work in Houston and nearby towns. Can the website say that?
Yes. List Felton, Milford, Farmington or any other place you work on a service area page, and every page keeps the contact form.
Will someone from Aria visit my business in Houston?
No. Aria is based in Curitiba, Brazil, and works with every client online: material, change requests and questions go by email, and you review the website on a temporary link before it goes live.
With 405 people in Houston, is a website worth the money?
Your market is bigger than the town: Kent County has 17,053 nonemployer businesses and 4,971 with employees (2023), and customers search across the whole area. A website is how people outside Houston find you.
Do you work with businesses outside Houston?
Yes. A service area page can cover every part of Kent County you serve.
Is there a setup fee?
No. No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website. There is no lock-in contract either: you can end the service whenever you need.
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- Numbers for Houston come from the U.S. Census Bureau: 2025 population estimates (Vintage 2025), the 2020-2024 American Community Survey (5-year), county figures where the town estimate is too uncertain, County and ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023, Nonemployer Statistics 2023 and the 2025 Gazetteer for straight-line distances.
- Climate: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (station USC00073595).
- The Delaware rules come from the official sources linked in that section (checked October 30, 2026); county seats from the USGS National Atlas.