Web Design in Stickney, South Dakota

Designing a website around Stickney’s customers

Homeownership is high in Stickney: 75.9% of households own, against 68.6% in South Dakota. Owners spend on repairs, upgrades and yard work, year after year.

Stickney is one of 3 municipalities in Aurora County, a county of 2,801 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 $72,885 and the median age is 41.7. 83.6% of households have broadband and 14.0% rely on a cellphone data plan alone. Homeowners are 72.7% of households.

How Stickney has changed since 2020

The count is steady: 319 in 2020, 319 in 2025. The state’s figure for the same years was +5.5%. Without much growth, the customers are mostly the same people every year; the website is how they remember you.

Stickney in figures

Getting to and around Stickney

Distances from Stickney: Plankinton (9 miles north), Corsica (12 miles south) and Mount Vernon (12 miles northeast). For flights, Mitchell Municipal Airport (MHE) lies 24 miles away. Plankinton, seat of Aurora County, lies 9 miles to the north. 9 municipalities lie within 25 miles, each with its own customers. Naming Corsica, Mount Vernon and the other places you cover on a service area page tells customers outside Stickney that you work there too.

By the 1991-2020 normals of the White Lake weather station (14 miles from Stickney), July highs average 86°F and January lows average 8°F. About 24 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a normal year, most of it in May. The high reaches 90°F or more on about 26 days a year, and the low falls to freezing or below on about 163 days. Winter reshuffles demand: plowing and heating in winter, yard work and construction once it thaws. Update the homepage before your busy season: a short email with the new text is all it takes.

Local competition in Stickney

Stickney shares ZIP code 57375 with the surrounding area, where 25 employer businesses were counted in 2023. A sample of that count, and what each kind of business needs online:

• 3 auto repair shops: a page per service (brakes, A/C, diagnostics), the shop’s location and a quick contact form.

County-wide, Aurora County counts 78 businesses with employees and 258 self-employed or nonemployer businesses (2023). Retail trade accounts for 15.4% of the county’s employer establishments, ahead of health care and social assistance (14.1%) and construction (11.5%).

Running a website from Stickney: the South Dakota rules

A few rules apply to any Stickney business that sells or advertises online:

• South Dakota’s state sales and use tax rate is 4.2%, and municipalities add their own sales tax on top of it. South Dakota Department of Revenue
• A federal rule (16 CFR Part 465) makes it unlawful to write, buy or sell fake reviews and testimonials, so the reviews on a business website have to be real. 16 CFR Part 465

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

Small business website, start to finish

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

1. Start with the online sign-up, which takes about 5 minutes.
2. Review the website on a temporary link, ready within 5 business days, and request any changes by email.
3. 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 are handled for you, and you request content changes by email at no extra cost.