31.3% of Center residents are under 18, compared with 23.5% across North Dakota. Web design in Center should put hours, prices and ages served up front. Here is the offer: $89 a month for the website, domain, business email and hosting, no setup fee, and the first payment only after you approve the finished site.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Center up close: notes for a small business website
26.0% of Center residents are 65 or older, against 16.5% across North Dakota. Families often look up services for an older parent, sometimes from another state. Write for the person who is searching for a parent: address, hours, service area and an email answered by a person.
Local competition in Center
The Census counted 41 establishments with employees in 2023 in ZIP code 58530, which includes Center and its surroundings.
County-wide, Oliver County counts 47 businesses with employees and 143 self-employed or nonemployer businesses (2023). By number of employer establishments, other services (repair, personal care, organizations) leads in Oliver County (17.0%), followed by retail trade (12.8%) and utilities (8.5%).
Website design Center: start with the customer
97.2% of Center households are homeowners (62.9% statewide). Center homeowners hire contractors, cleaners, landscapers and insurance agents, and most check them online first.
Census estimates for a city this size carry a wide margin of error, so the county is the better guide: households have a median income of $77,240, and half the residents are older than 46.1. Broadband reaches 89.7% of homes, and 8.1% of households are online only through a phone plan. 95.2% of households own their home.
Center on the map
Nearby incorporated places: Stanton (15 miles north), Washburn (18 miles northeast) and New Salem (20 miles south). Center covers 0.5 square miles of land, about 1,220 residents per square mile. The county government of Oliver County is in Center, the county seat. A 25-mile radius around Center takes in 7 other municipalities. A service area page that lists the towns you cover, from Center to New Salem and Washburn, answers the first question many customers have: do you come to me?
By the 1991-2020 normals of the Washburn weather station (18 miles from Center), July highs average 83°F and January lows average 2°F. About 18 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a normal year, most of it in June. Freezing nights (32°F or below) come about 182 times a year. Cold winters bring furnace repair, snow removal, roofing and auto service, and the first freeze sends everyone searching at once. Plan the website around your busy season: a short email with the new text is all it takes.
Center’s population, year by year
Census estimates put Center at 582 in 2020 and 583 in 2025, a stable city. North Dakota as a whole changed +2.6% in the same period. When the population is steady, businesses grow by taking customers from competitors, and the website is often where that choice happens.
Census facts about Center
There are 211 households, and 97.2% of them own their home.
From sign-up to a live website
Aria is a web design company from Curitiba, Brazil, working since 2008. Everything is done online, so businesses in Center get exactly the same plan as anyone else.
- You sign up in about 5 minutes and email us your logo, photos and anything you want on the site.
- Your website is ready within 5 business days on a temporary link, so you can check every page before anything is published.
- Ask for adjustments by email, approve, and after the first monthly fee the site goes live on your domain.
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
Rules that apply to a Center business website
A few rules apply to any Center business that sells or advertises online:
- Newsletters and promotions sent from your business email must include a working way to unsubscribe (16 CFR Part 316). 16 CFR Part 316
- North Dakota’s state sales tax rate is 5% for most retail sales, and cities and counties may levy their own sales and use taxes on top of it. North Dakota Office of State Tax Commissioner
This is general information, not legal advice; check with the North Dakota agencies, Oliver County, the city of Center or an attorney.
Questions from Center business owners
Do we need to have meetings?
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.
Can I tell customers in Washburn that I serve their town?
Yes. Tell us by email which towns you cover, Stanton and Washburn included, and they go on the website’s service area page.
With 583 people in Center, is a website worth the money?
Your market is bigger than the city: Oliver County has 143 nonemployer businesses and 47 with employees (2023), and customers search across the whole area. A website is how people outside Center find you.
Can my website say that the business is veteran-owned?
Yes. Any offer or detail you want to show goes on the website as text you send by email.
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.
Ready for a website in Center?
No setup fee, no lock-in contract: you see the finished website first and pay the first month only if you approve it.
- Population: Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates. Households, income, commuting and housing: American Community Survey 2020-2024, 5-year, county figures where the town estimate is too uncertain. Businesses: ZIP Code and County Business Patterns 2023 and Nonemployer Statistics 2023. Distances: 2025 Gazetteer, straight line.
- Climate: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (station USC00329195).
- State rules come from the official sources linked in that section (checked October 30, 2026); county seats from the USGS National Atlas.