Moscow (1,996 residents in 2025) sits on Interstate 380, with travelers and freight passing through every day. Web design in Moscow has to work for locals and for people passing through. The Aria plan costs $89 a month with domain, business email and hosting, and the first monthly fee is issued only after you approve the site.
No setup fee: you only pay the $89 monthly fee, after you approve your website.
Reading the Moscow customer
20.6% of workers are employed by a federal, state or local government (11.5% in Pennsylvania). Stable government payrolls support steady local spending on services. 80.4% of the people in Moscow were born in Pennsylvania, against 70.6% statewide. Reputation travels by word of mouth here, and the website is where a recommendation gets checked.
47.3% of adults 25 and over hold a bachelor’s degree or higher (35.2% in Pennsylvania). They compare carefully and appreciate specific, honest information.
Moscow: the numbers behind the market
The median household income, $82,031, is close to the Pennsylvania median of $77,971.
The population has barely moved since 2020: 2,001 then, 1,996 in 2025. Pennsylvania as a whole changed +0.4% in the same period. In a stable market, reputation matters, and a website lets customers check yours at any hour.
Who you compete with in Moscow
ZIP code 18444, which covers Moscow and the area around it, had 249 business establishments with employees in 2023. Among them:
- Landscaping companies: 12. Their website should show seasonal services, photos of yards you take care of and a quick way for new customers to reach you.
- Beauty salons: 7. Their website should show services with prices, photos of real work, the stylists and the hours.
- Full-service restaurants: 12. Their website should show the current menu with prices, hours, the address with a map and photos of real dishes.
- Child care centers: 6. Their website should show the program, licensing information, the staff and a contact form for parents.
- Beer, wine and liquor stores: 3. Their website should show store hours, what you carry and events or tastings, on a site you control.
County-wide, Lackawanna County counts 5,198 businesses with employees and 14,138 self-employed or nonemployer businesses (2023). The county’s largest sectors by number of employer establishments are health care and social assistance (15.6%), retail trade (15.6%) and accommodation and food services (10.9%). Moscow’s working residents are concentrated in education, health care and social assistance (27.7%) and professional, management and administrative services (11.9%). Each of these businesses competes for the same search: someone in Moscow typing what they need and picking from the results that look trustworthy.
A year of weather in Moscow
Moscow weather, in normals: July highs around 85°F, January lows around 20°F, measured at Wilkes-Barre International Airport, 10 miles away (1991-2020). Rain adds up to about 39 inches a year, falling on about 80 days with a tenth of an inch or more. The high reaches 90°F or more on about 12 days a year, and the low falls to freezing or below on about 122 days. Winter changes what people need: plowing and heating in winter, yard work and construction once it thaws. Update the homepage before your busy season: send the changes by email a few weeks ahead.
Towns near Moscow your website can name
Around Moscow, the nearest cities and towns are Dunmore (6.4 miles northwest), Throop (7.4 miles northwest) and Jessup (7.6 miles north). The nearest large city is Scranton, 8.3 miles to the northwest. 57 municipalities lie within 25 miles, each with its own customers. The county seat, Scranton, is 8.3 miles northwest. Moscow covers 2.8 square miles of land, about 701 residents per square mile. Naming Jessup, Dunmore and the other places you cover on a service area page tells customers outside Moscow that you work there too.
Moscow is one of 19 municipalities in Lackawanna County, a county of 216,502 people.
A web designer for Moscow businesses, working online
Aria is a web design company based in Curitiba, Brazil, building websites, online stores and business email since 2008. Everything is done online, so businesses in Moscow get exactly the same plan as anyone else.
- Fill in the sign-up form (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, pay the first month, and the website goes live on your domain together with your business email.
Hosting, the SSL certificate, daily backups and security updates are on us, and content changes you send by email are included.
- 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
Pennsylvania rules to know before your website goes live
A website doesn’t need a special license, but the business behind it follows the same Pennsylvania rules as any other.
- The Pennsylvania sales tax rate is 6 percent. Only two local add-ons exist: 1 percent in Allegheny County and 2 percent in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
- 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
- Municipal requirements are separate: check with the local municipality about taxes, zoning requirements, local licenses and permits. In Moscow, that means asking Lackawanna County and the Borough of Moscow. Official source
This is general information, not legal advice; check with the Pennsylvania agencies, Lackawanna County, the borough of Moscow or an attorney.
Small business website questions from Moscow
Will people in Dunmore and Jessup see that I work there too?
Yes. A service area page can name each town you cover, such as Dunmore, Jessup and Olyphant.
Is a website worth it for a business in a borough of 1,996 people?
Your market is bigger than the borough: Lackawanna County has 14,138 nonemployer businesses and 5,198 with employees (2023), and customers search across the whole area. A website is how people outside Moscow find you.
Can the website show which exit to take from Interstate 380?
Yes. Directions from Interstate 380, current hours and a map with your address fit on the contact page.
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 business in Moscow deserves a real website
Sign-up in about 5 minutes, website within 5 business days on a temporary link, and the $89 monthly fee only after you approve it.
- Numbers for Moscow come from the U.S. Census Bureau: 2025 population estimates (Vintage 2025), the 2020-2024 American Community Survey (5-year), County and ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023, Nonemployer Statistics 2023 and the 2025 Gazetteer (distances in a straight line).
- Climate: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (station USW00014777).
- Highways: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 primary roads and 2024 cartographic boundary files.
- State rules come from the official sources linked in that section (checked October 30, 2026); county seats from the USGS National Atlas.