Web Design in Lena, Mississippi

Lena and its neighbors

Lena’s nearest neighbors are Walnut Grove (8 miles, pop. 511), Carthage (11 miles, pop. 4,864), Sebastopol (15 miles, pop. 260) and Morton (18 miles, pop. 3,694). Lena covers 1.7 square miles of land, about 95 residents per square mile. Carthage, seat of Leake County, lies 11 miles to the north. Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is a short trip away: within 40 miles. For big-city shopping and services, Jackson (141,196 residents) is 41 miles away. 7 municipalities lie within 25 miles, each with its own customers. A service area page that lists the towns you cover, from Lena to Carthage and Morton, answers the first question many customers have: do you come to me?

Climate normals for 1991-2020 from Carthage, 11 miles away, put the July average high at 92°F and the January average low at 34°F. Precipitation totals about 58 inches a year, with April the wettest month. The high reaches 90°F or more on about 77 days a year. Heat sets the rhythm: crews start early, afternoons belong to indoor activities, and the hottest weeks bring urgent searches. Give seasonal work its own page, so the right page is there when the weather turns.

Lena households and how they shop

Lena is one of 4 municipalities in Leake County, a county of 21,662 people. Census estimates for a town this size carry a wide margin of error, so the county is the better guide: the median household income is $50,728 and the median age is 40.3. Broadband reaches 74.8% of homes, and 28.1% of households are online only through a phone plan. Homeowners are 76.7% of households.

Lena by the numbers

Businesses in and around Lena

ZIP code 39094, which covers Lena and the area around it, had 26 business establishments with employees in 2023.

Leake County as a whole had 320 employer establishments in 2023 and another 1,527 nonemployer businesses, the one-person shops and independent contractors that often have no website at all. Retail trade accounts for 24.4% of the county’s employer establishments, ahead of other services (repair, personal care, organizations) (13.1%) and health care and social assistance (10.3%).

Your website for $89 a month, step by step

Aria works from Curitiba, Brazil, and has built websites for businesses since 2008. We don’t have an office in Lena: the whole process happens online, and the plan is the same $89 a month in any city.

1. You sign up in about 5 minutes and email us your logo, photos and anything you want on the site.
2. Review the website on a temporary link, ready within 5 business days, and request any changes by email.
3. Once you approve it, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain.

After launch, changes to text, photos and prices are requested by email and are part of the monthly fee; quick questions go by email too.

Running a website from Lena: the Mississippi rules

These are some of the Mississippi and federal rules a small business with a website runs into:

• Accessibility is a federal matter: the Justice Department’s ADA guidance covers the websites of businesses open to the public. ADA.gov guidance
• Mississippi’s regular retail sales tax rate is 7%. Groceries dropped to 5% on July 1, 2025. Local add-ons exist only at the city level: Tupelo adds 0.25% and Jackson adds 1% on certain sales. A sales tax permit from the Department of Revenue is required before doing business, one per location. Mississippi Department of Revenue

Rules change and details vary by business; this is general information, not legal advice.