St. Thomas dates from 1881, and its 305 residents live in a city with more than a century of history. Web design in St. Thomas should show who is behind the business and what it has done. If you run a business in St. Thomas, Aria can put a professional website online for $89 a month, with domain, email and hosting included and no setup fee; the first payment comes only after you approve it.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Who you compete with in St. Thomas
From the 2023 county count for Pembina County:
- Insurance agencies: 5. Their website should show the lines you write (auto, home, business, life), the carriers you work with and a quote request form.
- Full-service restaurants: 5. Their website should show the menu, the dining room, private-event information and the hours, kept current by email.
Across Pembina County, County Business Patterns counted 264 employer establishments in 2023, and the Nonemployer Statistics add 477 businesses with no payroll, most of them self-employed owners. 25 nondurable goods wholesalers operate in Pembina County, about seven times what the national mix would predict. In that line of work, restaurants, shops and institutions order by catalog; the website should give customers the catalog, delivery routes and how to become a customer. Next on the list: religious, civic and membership organizations, 20 of them, at twice the national share.
Mapping the area around St. Thomas
Distances from St. Thomas: Crystal (10 miles), Hoople (10 miles), Hensel (11 miles) and Drayton (13 miles). A 25-mile radius around St. Thomas takes in 14 other municipalities. St. Thomas covers 1.0 square miles of land, about 300 residents per square mile. The nearest large city is Grand Forks, 51 miles to the south. Pembina Municipal Airport (PMB) is 24 miles northeast of St. Thomas in a straight line. Cavalier, seat of Pembina County, lies 14 miles to the northwest. Customers in Crystal and Hensel will ask the same thing: do you work here? A service area page answers before they have to.
Who is searching in St. Thomas
Pembina County: 6,568 residents (2025) in 11 incorporated places. At the county level, where the estimates are more precise: households have a median income of $68,393, and half the residents are older than 45.5. Broadband reaches 89.5% of homes, and 9.5% of households are online only through a phone plan. Homeowners are 74.6% of households.
St. Thomas at a glance
The annual estimates show a slow decline, from 317 in 2020 to 305 in 2025. That compares with +2.6% for North Dakota as a whole. When the population is steady, businesses grow by taking customers from competitors, and the website is often where that choice happens.
Your website for $89 a month, step by step
Aria has built websites since 2008 and is based in Curitiba, Brazil. We work with businesses remotely, so a company in St. Thomas gets the same plan, at $89 a month, without meetings or visits.
- Register your business online in about 5 minutes; the logo, photos and texts you already have go by email.
- Within 5 business days the website is ready on a temporary link, and you review it and ask for changes.
- Approve it, pay the first month, and the website goes live on your domain together with your business email.
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 St. Thomas business website
Some homework before launch:
- 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
- Fake or bought reviews are illegal under a federal rule in force since 2024 (16 CFR Part 465): post only real ones. 16 CFR Part 465
This is general information, not legal advice; check with the North Dakota agencies, Pembina County, the city of St. Thomas or an attorney.
Your questions, answered for St. Thomas
Is a website worth it for a business in a city of 305 people?
Yes, because the competition is county-wide: Pembina County counts 477 nonemployer businesses and 264 with employees (2023). Being findable outside St. Thomas is the point of the website.
Do you work with businesses outside St. Thomas?
Yes. The plan is the same anywhere in North Dakota, and the website can name every town in Pembina County you cover.
What do I need to send?
Photos of your real work or place, taken with a good phone, usually say more than stock images; send them by email with your logo and service descriptions.
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.
Your St. Thomas website, domain and email in one plan
About 5 minutes to sign up, a temporary link within 5 business days, and no payment until you approve.
- Numbers for St. Thomas come from the U.S. Census Bureau: the Vintage 2025 population estimates, 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.
- Founding year, nickname, elevation, waters, colleges, hospitals, airports and parks: Wikidata (item Q2443530), retrieved on October 30, 2026; distances are straight-line.
- State rules come from the official sources linked in that section (checked October 30, 2026); county seats from the USGS National Atlas.